[OSM-talk] Licensing Working Group

[Simon Poole]

There is a big difference between an announcement to this list and on 
the web site and sending an e-mail to each individual mapper. The former 
only reaches a minority (very likely a small minority) of the mappers. 
Besides the fact the most mappers don't actually read this list (for 
example because English is not their native tongue), a large number of 
mappers, map infrequently and need to be contacted actively in any case.

I've personally been in contact with quite active mappers that months 
after August 2010 didn't realize that they could actually sign up to the 
CTs (this includes mappers that participated in the OSMF vote on the 
license change!). To this date the headline text on the web site still 
doesn't make it clear that you can actually make you cross and be done 
with it (it actually implies wasting more time on endless discussions).

Simon


Am 25.03.2011 14:48, schrieb Phil! Gold:
> * Simon Poole<simon at poole.ch>  [2011-03-23 13:03 +0100]:
>> Am 23.03.2011 12:52, schrieb Steve Doerr:
>>> I'm still waiting for an official request for users to sign up to
>>> the new terms. Have I missed one?
>> No you haven't.
> I thought I'd seen an announcement for the voluntary relicensing (the
> phace of the ODBL transition in which we presently find ourselves), so I
> checked back through my archives, and found that it was announced on this
> list on 12 August 2010.
>
>    http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2010-August/052853.html
>