[OSM-talk] Announce: Beginning of Phase 4 of license change process
Eric Marsden
eric.marsden at free.fr
Wed Jun 15 17:26:29 BST 2011
>>>>> "mc" == Michael Collinson <mike at ayeltd.biz> writes:
mc> As per the implementation plan [1], we intend to move to phase 4
mc> this Sunday 19th June or as soon after as is technically
mc> practical. This will mean that anyone who has explicitly declined
mc> the new contributor terms will no longer be able to edit, (unless
mc> they decide to accept). This currently numbers 406 in total
mc> compared to over 191,000 who now contribute under the new terms.
This is disingenuous communication, glossing over the very important
issue of how many users have not voted (leading, if this plan goes
through, to the deletion of their contributions and of any subsequent edits).
Reading odbl.de, 60% of users have accepted the new contributor terms
in Europe (40% in the USA, the proportion worldwide is not shown).
There 417k users. So (extrapolating) 200k have not accepted the
new terms and 190k have accepted.
Hopefully the decision on whether to go ahead with the odbl transition
will be based on how much data would be deleted, not this kind of
misleading statistic.
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Eric Marsden
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