On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 09:17 +1000, Michael Hampson wrote: > This came through over night. > > Is it a standard mailer going out to all?
I received the same, so presumably yes. One has to wonder how many innocent users who dont want to be banished from the project, simply click 'agree' or follow the link, having no understanding of what theyre actually agreeing to, or whether they even have the rights to relicence their changes. To be done properly, there should have been a note added to that email to only agree to the terms if you know your edits are 100% clean, otherwise the liability falls back to you personally and not to the project if its found you have contributed infringing data. However, a note like this would only serve to educate the users and wouldnt be an encouragement to blindly accept, which some in control think is what should happen. David > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: > [OpenStreetMap] OpenStreetMap is > changing the licence > Date: > Wed, 6 Apr 2011 16:09:39 +0100 > From: > wicking > <m-177534-5c8...@messages.openstreetmap.org> > To: > mhamp...@fastmail.com.au > > > Hi MCH, > > wicking has sent you a message through OpenStreetMap with the subject > OpenStreetMap is changing the licence: > > == > Hello MCH. > > As I’ve seen on http://odbl.de you’ve contributed quite a lot of data so I > wanted to ask, if you already know, that OpenStreetMap is asking existing > contributors to re-license their contributions under a new licence, which is > more suitable for our data. (OSM wants to change the current Creative Commons > Attribution Share-Alike 2.0 (CC-BY-SA 2.0) to Open Database License (OdbL) > 1.0.) > > Maybe you’ve reasons why you did not accept it already. Perhaps you could > tell me. > > You can read more about the licence change here: > http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/We_Are_Changing_The_License > > You can accept the new licence here (if you’re logged in): > http://openstreetmap.org/user/terms > > I hope to hear from you. > Erik from Berlin, Germany > == > > You can also read the message at > http://www.openstreetmap.org/message/read/177534 > and you can reply at http://www.openstreetmap.org/message/reply/177534 > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
