On 05/12/2009, at 11:30 PM, Grant Slater wrote: > For clarity... the OSM Foundation is not some evil group... > The OSMF is open, anyone from the community can join. The OSMF Board > is democratically elected from the OSMF membership.
If anyone who isn't a OSMF member wants to read the discussion, it's available in the archives, with two posts at the end of November and everything so far this month: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/ As expected, there is a fair amount of disagreement on whether the ODbL is good, whether the contributor terms are good, whether pro-ODbL people are trying to push it though before things have been sorted out, and whether anti-ODbL people are full of stop-energy and just like to complain. > Some of the reasons why we which to move away from CC BY-SA: > http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Why_CC_BY-SA_is_Unsuitable For reference, the two links that are going to be sent to us, which anyone can edit, are: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Why_You_Should_Vote_Yes http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Why_You_Should_Vote_No _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

