[OSM-talk] OSM license change: A license to kill? -> How to make a nightmare come true!

[Andy Allan]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Andy Allan wrote:
>>
>> 1) Make the plan and the draft public. Ask for feedback.
>> 2) Wait for feedback to be taken into account and expect/hope for a
>> final version of the ODbL
>> 3) See if the OSMF board approves
>> 4) See if OSMF members like what results
>
> The word "final" should probably be struck out here because it has kind of
> "gun to your head" ring to it: Take this license or be stuck with CC-BY-SA
> forever.
>
> Instead, if either the OSMF board, or the members, are unhappy with the
> license (which is quite likely given that only ONE week is scheduled for
> phase 2 and I can safely say that the status quo would not pass a vote),
> then we need a new iteration; what is your "final" version then becomes the
> draft, and back to phase 1.
>
> And this must be made clear when the vote is taken; that this is not a vote
> about "ODbL now or CC-BY-SA forever" but a vote about "ODbL or wait for
> revisions".

Absolutely. I meant final as in non-draft - bad choice of words on my behalf.

Like saying when we have a "final" version of API 0.6 ;-)

Cheers,
Andy