Andy Allan wrote: > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Gervase Markham <[email protected]> wrote: >> The GPLv3 public revision process was 18 months in multiple phases, and >> it was based on an existing licence. We are trying to analyse a >> completely new and untested one and get it to a final version in 1 month. > > We've been talking about the ODbL for a loooong time now, way more > than 18 months. It's not completely new. The previous draft was dated > April 2008. If you're new to the discussions, then welcome, but don't > make like the ODbL has never been seen before and that we're trying to > do everything in 1 month. >
No, it's absolutely too fast. It's been discussed for a long time - but nearly entirely behind closed doors, with almost nothing concrete to see about progress on the legal mailing list (I'm not a subscriber, but have kept looking at the archives to check on what's happening - which most of the time has seemed to be 'Jordan's looking at it'). Gervase is entirely right. I feel steamrollered, and don't appreciate it. The process seems designed to exaggerate a tendency to 'them and us' rather than community. Please go with Gervase's suggested timetable instead. And build in some extra process for including results of discussion by non-english-speaking countries. Graham > Cheers, > Andy > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
