[OSM-talk] Licensing Working Group

[Elizabeth Dodd]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:25:21 +0000
Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:

> On 25/03/11 14:13, Simon Poole wrote:
> 
> > 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).
> 
> That's because we haven't yet reached the point where we are actively
> asking existing existing contributors to signup - once we do they will
> be emailed to ask them to consider doing so.
> 
> Tom
> 

Such behaviour suggests ambivalence on the part of the organising
committee.