The License Working Group has spent months, well probably nearer years, on the license change. They know one heck of a lot more about legal systems than myself. They are people that I trust. Therefore I'm going to listen to them, and let them just get on with it. I really just wan this license change sorted out and completed as there are other more important things to be done.
Shaun On 6 Dec 2009, at 00:37, Ulf Lamping wrote: > Kai Krueger schrieb: >>> Don't you see that this is a complete inappropriate way to deal with >>> an open community? >> >> No, as the previous process has always been pretty open with discussions >> on talk, legal-talk, the wiki and some of the mailing lists. How much >> more open do you want it to be with out spamming 150000 people who are >> mostly not interested in the process of the license on every little detail? > > I find it completely inappropriate to ask the fellow mappers out there: > > Say yes to the new license or we'll delete your data in february > > This requires a very strong opinion against the license to build the > believe: "I don't want the new license, so I'm willing to loose the last > years of my work with OSM". > > > You may be right that the "no sayers" have more "weight" in the process, > but becoming a "no sayer" requires a very strong believe as you > potentially loose all your previous work. > > > > What I would have expected would be a simple web poll with a few options > to get a first idea what the mappers out there really want. > > Regards, ULFL > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
