On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 8:01 AM, John Smith <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 10 January 2011 23:39, Andy Allan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Although this is the dev list I'll suggest this - engage the community > > and your social problem might go away. You can use the "description" > > field in your user account to note that you aren't currently able to > > relicense all of your data. You could explain further the problems on > > your wiki user page. You could help other people by noting which > > licenses the data you are importing fall under ( see > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue and search for > > "Importer will not reveal source or license"). You could use separate > > accounts for your imports and bot-like activity, as the guidelines > > suggest. In other words, solve the social problem by using social > > solutions. > > Nice straw man, however such responsibility should fall to the OSM-F > since they are the ones instigating such changes, they should be doing > something about this problem, why is it being left up to end users to > try and facilitate the change over? public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("OSM is a community. Perhaps some of the community wants to be proactive about the license change."); } > > > Anyway, I agree that this isn't a technical discussion (no code is > > going to be written to block these message from reaching you), so we > > could leave it there as far as this list is concerned. > > Some code will have to be written at some point to accept explicit > disagreement with the CT, and I'm not the first to complain about this > issue and I doubt I'll be the last so unless you want more emails > about this problem I suggest something be centrally co-ordinated to > deal with it in a more orderly fashion than harassing users constantly > because they haven't agreed with the new CTs. > #!/bin/bash prompt AGREE "Do you agree with the Contributor Terms? " if [ $AGREE ] do echo "Great, thanks!" exit 0 else do prompt COMPLAIN "Will you troll the OSM community as you try to nit pick every possible issue in the license?" if [ $COMPLAIN ] do echo $USER > ~.ignorelist done done
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