Hi, On 09.06.19 20:00, Christoph Hormann wrote: > I applaud you placing the ball in the OSMF board's court on this matter > but i would not expect substantial actions from there.
The board has received the message and I'm sure it will be discussed internally in due course. It might be worth noting that LWG are working on improved attribution guidelines (https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licensing_Working_Group/Minutes/2019-01-10#Update_attribution_guidance) and perhaps it makes sense to delay any drastic action until these are ready. I don't expect any big changes (basic requirements of the license are not up for discussion) but perhaps some useful clarifications. > And with at the moment at least four out of seven OSMF board members > having ties to big organizational OSM data users/contributors ... well, > as we say in German: Eine Krähe hackt der anderen kein Auge aus. Be that as it may, but there's also another thing to keep in mind: The OSMF board doesn't have an army of eager workers at their fingertips whom we can task with something. As you know, there's always discussion about enlarging the organisation, hiring more staff, hiring an executive director (which OSM US have done with much fanfare) etc., and as you also know, I am usually against such "OSMF inflation". I don't know what your position is in these matters; but actually cataloguing license violations, sending the appropriate legal nastygrams to the appropriate legal entities in the appropriate countries and all that, is certainly something that can occupy one employee full time - an employee where the OSMF would likely depend on corporate members like Facebook to pay their salary. So we have to be careful with what we demand from the OSMF. As you rightly say, while the OSMF board's cooperation might be required for a few legal aspects, there are many potential avenues of "direct action" that people could take to, but apparently the issue is not *that* big for most. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
