On 19 Apr 2011, at 09:41, David Groom wrote: >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Davie" <[email protected]> >> >> The thing you're not understanding is that this isn't a vote. It's an >> agreement to distribute your work under a new license. > > No, the CT's are an agreement to contribute work, not to distribute it.
Sorry, I misspoke. >> That 70% *have* agreed to distribute their work under the new license. It >> is entirely valid for the camp that wants to move to the ODbL sooner rather >> than later to count the 70% in their stats, because accepting the new >> license is all that matters, not some imaginary war between "yes" and "no". >> > > It's not valid to count people who haven't voted in the "YES" statistics. Its > valid to say all the people who have never edited would automatically have > agreed to the CT's, any more than it is valid to say that all the people who > have never edited would not have agreed to the CT's. But again – it's not a matter of voting yes, it's a matter of agreeing to contribute under a license. There's no voting going on here, just a bunch of people letting OSM use their changes after the switch, and a bunch not letting them. No one is "counting the 70% in the yes vote" – instead, they are saying "this 70% have no impact on us changing to the new license because no data will be deleted if we simply dump these users". > Nor is it valid to simply switch these people over to the new CT's without > incident. OK, don't let these people edit without agreeing to the new CT's, > but to simply switch their accounts to the new CT's on the assumption they > would agree, and it doesn't affect ant data currently in the OSM database, is > not right. No one is proposing switching them to the new CTs – what's going to happen is that their data (all none of it) is simply going to be dropped. The biggest impact this will have on OSM is that 2 or 3 people will come back in a while going "didn't I have an account here 2-3 years ago? Hmm, can't remember the name, I'll create a new one" and will agree to the new CTs when they sign up again. Bob _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
