I did decline the new terms. And I was contacted, as I said, just once,
by someone trying to persuade me to change my mind. My point was that
OSM never contacted me to say that a licence change was being
considered. That is hardly the right way to go about making a major
change to the system.
I also take issue with this statement:
Declining hurts fellow Australian mappers who have in good faith build
data on-top of your contributions and will leave animosity between our
projects.
Don't try blaming decliners for the hurt to other mappers. If anyone
built up on my edits, and their work gets deleted as a result, blame
OSM, not the members who declined.
Richard
On 31/03/2012 12:36 PM, Ian Sergeant wrote:
Hi Richard,
Like or loathe the licence change, and the manner it has been pursued,
sure. But I really don't think anyone in OSM has tried to keep the
knowledge of the licence change quiet. I think a fair few people have
been trying to get in touch with as many people as possible.
I've personally tried contacting Australian contributors individually
who haven't accepted or declined, and who haven't edited for a while.
These are the people who may not be engaged with the community any
longer, and who actually may not know about the licence change. Did
you decline the licence change? Because if you did, I'd have assumed
that you knew about it and were aware of the discussion, and therefore
didn't need to be contacted.
Thanks,
Ian.
On 31 March 2012 09:14, Richard Colless <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Thank you, John. I couldn't have expressed it better.
Throughout this whole sorry story, I have only ever received ONE
communication form OSM. It was a begging letter asking me to
reconsider. If not for the discussion of the forum, I would not
have even known about the licence change. AI think that shows how
much OSM cares about keeping contributors informed about changes.
Richard
On 31/03/2012 7:43 AM, John Smith wrote:
On 31 March 2012 01:54, Grant
Slater<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Australian Decliners,
As a mapper, contributor and member of the project's
sysadmin team I
kindly ask you to please reconsider your declined status.
Time is
about to run out.
You and others didn't care about us, told us to go away as we were
insignificant and our issue were unimportant and now you come
begging
for us to reconsider.
Perhaps the whole license issue should be reconsidered, after
all you
are the one throwing out the baby with the bath water, you are
choosing to do this, not us, perhaps you should choose to call the
whole thing off.
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