On Mar 4, 2009, at 5:59 PM, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote:
El Miércoles, 4 de Marzo de 2009, [email protected]
escribió:
How about the option of contributors transferring their
copyright to OSM (the legal entity) which can then choose
to release the data under an appropriate license?
This is not a good idea because the OSMF can be "bought out" quite
easily by a
big company.
We've had this discussion about membership at the Open Source
Initiative. Basically, if you have an organization where all it takes
to join is the cost of a six-pack of beer plus a warm body, then when
you get threatened by enough corporate flunkies paid to join and vote
their master's wishes, and you issue a "SAVE US" call to your
organization and they won't join and out-vote the flunkies ... then
your organization sucks anyway and deserves to die.
It's not a real threat to a functioning organization. I think the OSM
and its foundation are a functioning organization, so I counsel you to
not worry about the OSMF being taken over.
But it also might be the better part of wisdom for the OSMF to say
that you have to be a member for a month before you can vote.
--
Russ Nelson - http://community.cloudmade.com/blog -
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RussNelson
[email protected] - http://openstreetmap.org/user/RussNelson
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