[OSM-talk] Join the OSMF !

[Henk Hoff]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Serge Wroclawski-2 wrote:
> >
> > Next, about a year later, a vote amongst OSMF membership was
> > taken.This isn't the board, but the entire membership. Since it was a
> > decision that was to effect the direction of the OSMF, this makes
> > sense to me..
> >
> This was before my time, but from what I understand it was not a vote on
> whether to switch to ODbL, but whether to start the process of creating a
> license and deciding whether we should switch.
>
>
Before everybody understands things differently.

The OSMF-membership vote *was* about moving to the ODbL and the (older
version of) CT.
Outcome: 98% of voters in favor of the proposed change, 2% against.

During the time of the OSMF-membership vote, there was also a vote initiated
by the community, which can be seen here:
http://doodle.com/feqszqirqqxi4r7w
Outcome: 75% would accept the new license, 11% undecided, 14% not (at that
time)

There has been similar polls by the community during that time with similar
results.

Both (the vote and the poll) show a large majority in favor of the proposed
change. Again: ODbL combined with CT.

This was done *before* all the new sign-ups were asked to sign the CT. Based
on this outcome of the membership-vote the process to change the license was
continued. The polls in the community were no reason to change this
decision.

Cheers,
Henk
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