Pieren schrieb: > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Rahkonen Jukka > It would be only > confusing to have >> more options like in the opinion poll at >> http://doodle.com/feqszqirqqxi4r7w >> > > The poll contains the three original questions which will be asked to > all contributors if the new license is approved by the OSMF: > - yes > - yes and consider all my data PD > - no > Then I added two more questions for those who would say 'no', for this > part of the public who feels that they have a 'gun on the head' > because they don't agree with the Odbl. Then I added two options to > give them a chance to explain why they would say 'no'. > > A general remark about the 'crappy poll'. As I said, it is true that > is is not a reliable poll. But the OSMF never tried to reach the 99% > of the community which is never writing on this talk-list. A more > serious poll can only be organized by the OSMF because they know the > list of contributors, their emails and could manage the single replies > like it will be for the final vote. Of course, it will not avoid the > fact that some contributors will create a special account just to fake > the result , but this will be also true for the real vote. > But the OSMF never tries to reach those who are not reading the > talk-lists or watching the forums. How many times have we seen a call > for a simple question about the new license on the diary or on the > main site page or on the header on all wiki pages ? Never. The > community will have to reply to the simple question just at the end of > the process with the threat that their contributions will be removed > if they refuse and the unfair reply "why did you not participate > earlier in the debats when it was the time for it ?". > So, I would thank the approx. 300 who participated to the 'crappy poll'.
Thank you! You perfectly summarized my concerns about the current license process :-) Regards, ULFL _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
