Richard Weait wrote: > > Interesting idea. How should this work? Something like?: > > ... steps leading to today > - users indicate ODbL acceptance or not > - summarize user replies: x replies, y accept. > - somebody processes all the results to show data effect > - publish those results > - users vote to proceed with license upgrade (or not) based on > published results. > - upgrade license (or not) based on user vote >
Yes, I too think that is a very interesting idea and perhaps the most workable solution to keep as many people as possible happy and ensures that OSM remains a success, without having to go through the incredibly difficult process of defining these thresholds. It also means that people should feel much more confident in trusting the OSMF and LWG with some of the other difficult decisions yet to come (like what counts as derivative), which will hopefully give the LWG the necessary freedom to continue to do a good gob. I understand your suggestion as basically going exactly through the steps that are already planned in the Implementation plan ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Database_License/Implementation_Plan ) in exactly the same way, just that the final stage, the "Done!" stage would be replaced by a vote by the community, once a copy of the new CC-By-SA clean db is avalable. (I would probably suggest the same definition of 66% of active contributors as in the CT for this final vote). "Phase 4 - CC-BY-SA edits no longer accepted" phase would still mean the LWG need to define a critical mass, at which point Phase 4 can enter, but as that would only be temporary and subject to the final vote, I hope it will be much easier to sell this to people who are worried about data loss and convince them to offer their temporary trust. Kai -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Defining-critical-mass-tp5290276p5292084.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
