> No, just that your more likely to get an answer about the legal side of > things in legal-talk.
But this is the problem; the "legal side of things" is the central issue to OpenStreetMap at the moment. You can't simply try and sideline a difficult issue by describing it as "legal". *Open*StreetMap is defined by its license, but there are plenty of people who want to change the license, and therefore the core of the project, without explaining in layman's terms what this means. I signed up to contribute to a map with a specific license; changing the license down the line isn't a legal matter, it's a core user issue. This is something that many in the licensing discussions have failed to address, probably because it's difficult and it's easier to say "the legal mailing list is over there". I've received emails from OSM contributors asking why I haven't accepted the new license terms; I always reply saying that I would consider it if it could be explained in a manner that didn't end in trolling on the mailing lists. So far nobody has managed to do that. In fairness, I don't want to get spammed on the talk list with trolling (Anthony?) remarks about the license change, but saying that people can't ask questions about it *at all* is just a lazy attempt to try and ignore the defining feature of OSM. There's a balance that needs to be struck, but people should understand that legal issues are core to OSM. If you want to contribute to a project and not ask questions about the legal issues concerning data you produce, you might as well sign up for Google Map Maker; I thought that OSM had this licensing issue at the heart of what we did, but I could be wrong. Cheers, Joseph On 5 March 2011 23:29, Robert Naylor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 23:10:38 -0000, john whelan <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> So basically you are saying that it is not possible to explain it in >> layman's terms. Thank you for your input. > > No, just that your more likely to get an answer about the legal side of > things in legal-talk. > > -- > Robert > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
