On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Richard Weait <rich...@weait.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:37 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Yes, we contributors are being treated with contempt alright, besides >> not being asked what we contributors want, since this whole thing >> started it's been nothing but dirty tricks to try and get the license >> changed. > > No, JohnSmith, still you present a skewed vision. > > Every time OSM contributors have been asked, they have supported ODbL > (or license change before ODbL had a name). All the way back to SotM > Manchester. And all the way forward through polls and surveys and more > SotM conferences. All the time, collaborative discussions and > compromise. Every contributor will make their own choice to proceed > or not. > > But still you accuse other OSM contributors of "dirty tricks". > > You claim your volume of edits or gas consumption as if it were > something unusual to OpenStreetMap contributors. But then you import > data without following the community import guidelines[1] And then you > run 'bots without following the community automated edits > guidelines[2] Not cool, JohnSmith.
And wage a campaign of reverting pages on the wiki[1], or hiding major changes behind the "minor edit" flag[2]. And the seemingly never-ending inane rebuttals of everyone else on the mailing lists leading to simply unbelievable volumes of email[3]. Cheers, Andy [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User_talk:Firefishy#User:JohnSmith [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:JohnSmith&oldid=512994 [3] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2010-August/052736.html _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
