On Nov 25, 2010, at 4:09 PM, Grant Slater wrote: > John, > > On 25 November 2010 20:15, john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Just a comment from one of the 130 who has voted yes on the recommendation >> of one of the people I thought was fairly sensible here and I now regret >> taking his advice. I now strongly suspect I should have spent six months >> wading through through the legal talk side of things rather than mapping >> because a whole slew of issues seem to be coming up here. >> > > ~4800 existing users have agreed to the Contributor Terms, this > excludes the new OSM signups. > Or are you discussing the foundation members vote? > >> I would like the ability to go back and change my vote. >> >> I don't like being told this is not the place for discussion of license >> issues or concerns. In light of the recent involvement of Microsoft and >> other large players I think there are perception problems that need to be >> addressed. >> > > Microsoft/Bing has spoken to the Licensing Working Group on 2 > occasions. I flagged these up in the minutes. MapQuest has not spoken > to the Licensing Grouping Group. > >> For example I'm very concerned that there is no plan to deal with the >> transition to the new licensing model. >> > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Implementation_Plan > If you would like expansion on the items ask. > >> Perhaps OSM should take note of the Open Data mob and be a little more open >> about what is happening rather than trying to censure discussion on issues >> and concerns which apparently have not been addressed by the decision >> makers. They seem to have taken decisions but won't accept any >> responsibility to address issues and concerns. I'm not asking to stay with >> the old licenses necessarily but I would like to see some sort of plan and >> if we can find a way to address the issues and concerns. >> > > Censure discussion? Please expand. Moving licensing discussion to a > dedicated public list is not censure in my view. > > There have been many round of question, answers and many revisions. > The LWG spends at around 25% of their time just keeping minutes. I'm a > member of the LWG, we are all volenteers with the exception of > occasional member Steve Coast.
Er... what makes you think I'm not a volunteer? :-) > Full minutes: http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Working_Group_Minutes > > Regards > Grant > > _______________________________________________ > legal-talk mailing list > legal-t...@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk > Steve stevecoast.com _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
