On Oct 1, 2010, at 4:46 AM, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 11:01:12 +0100 > Rob Myers <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 10/01/2010 10:38 AM, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: >>> I ask once more >>> >>> "from where did OSMF get a mandate to change the licence?" >> >> The vote. >> >>> OSMF is a small set of persons and is not representative of OSM as a >>> community. >> >> Any representational or governing body will be a "small set of >> persons". Depending on which sense of "representative" you are using, >> the vote rings true given my experience of OSM debates around >> licencing and OSMF is as open and responsible or more so than other >> Free projects. >> >> Anyone can join OSMF. >> >> - Rob. >> > > The vote is not a mandate. It is a vote of a subset of persons. Being a > member of the OSM community is not a condition of belonging to OSMF. > > Not everyone can join OSMF. > Joining is restricted to persons with enough spare cash to pay a fee in > Pounds Sterling, access to a system for international money transfer if > not in the UK, and a number of other practical points dependent on UK > law - I would expect that minors are not supposed to be voting members > of a UK company. The ability to manage well in written English would be > a practical requirement.
Yes and they must also be a human being and not from Mars. > To pick an obvious example, the persons who mapped Nigerian slums are > unlikely to have the financial resources to join. Most students don't > have such resources. I would not expect the students involved in > mapping ShimlaPuri to have the financial resources. I think they have bigger problems, like access to clean water, than what's the vogue way to license crowd sourced content. > OSMF was set up for a particular purpose. Because responsibility for > the servers implies responsibility for the contents, the extension was > made to the licence. OSMF extended itself this privilege, not the OSM > community. This trolling is starting to get boring again. Please sod off and join 80n's band of merry morons. Steve stevecoast.com _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
