[OSM-talk] Join the OSMF !

Dermot McNally dermotm at gmail.com
Sat Jun 11 02:42:17 BST 2011


On 11 June 2011 02:13, John F. Eldredge <john at jfeldredge.com> wrote:

> When I signed up in the first place, I was required to say "I accept having my data placed under the CC-by-SA license", but, unlike the new license, I was not required to waive my right to have a say in any future license change.

You are not waiving your right to have a say with the new CT. You are
waiving your right to have a veto. I can't name a single mapper
important enough to have one of those.


> The OSMF is replacing democracy with oligarchy, so that, in the future, no mappers except the tiny fraction who are members of the OSMF will have a say in any future license change, such as changing over to charging for the use of map data.

No, we've never had democracy prior to CT. What we've had is a
situation where any one mapper may erect a barrier to whatever
decision needs to be made. CT replaces this with democracy requiring a
2/3 majority of active mappers. Those mappers do not have to be OSMF
members as your comments above suggest. Have you actually read the CT?

Dermot

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