[OSM-talk] CC-BY-SA still available?

[David Murn]

On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 16:48 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:

> You're new to the project obviously. Welcome! If you're interested in 
> the background story to the license change, and why we consider CC 
> unsuitable, I recommend that you read the archives of the legal-talk 
> list (see http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk) as well as 
> the various Wiki articles (you'll notice the license change banner on 
> wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki right away).

Did I just seriously read that right?

Did someone just ask a very basic question, querying someones statement
of fact ('unprotected in those jurisdictions') with a question ('what
jurisdiction?'), and get asked if they were a newbie?  Maybe you should
check who youre talking to Frederik, Anthony is hardly a newbie to OSM.

Did Frederik then explain that if they want to know about the licence
change (I never saw a question about the change, only questioning what
countries it would change things in), that they have to go and read the
mailing list archives for legal-talk.  Then, after reading the mailing
list archives, feel free to ask on legal-talk.

Is this a sign of things to come?  Is this really the way that OSMF will
treat new contributors in the future?

Wouldnt it be easier to simply answer the question, if you really had
anything substantial to contribute?  While we all understand that you
believe licence nitty-gritty (or, anything about the licence for that
matter, even data removal) should be on legal-talk, surely it would be
easier to simply answer some simple easy questions with simple easy
answers, rather than forcing people to read legalese (or the more likely
option, that they just abandon OSM completely).

David