[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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