Hi Grant, > Please list the "problematic language" you are referring to... Your > email on the 18th of Jan or your email in reply to Kai on the 6th Feb.
I see several small problems in the CT and two bigger problems. The bigger problems are related to the definition of "active contributor". The first problem is that the right to vote depends upon being allowed to contribute. I have been repeatedly asked to trust the OSMF that they would never prevent people from contributing (and thereby loosing their right to vote), because this would destroy the community and so be against the interest of the OSMF. At the same time, I am currently prevented from contributing, even though I have publicly stated several times that I support the planned license change and only see problems in the CT, and even though I am willing to license my contributions under very broad terms to the OSMF. The second problem is that the group entitled to vote is defined in a very restricting way. For example, someone who contributes for a period of 25 years and does all contibuting during holidaytime (e.g. in January and in July only) is never entitled to vote. The idea of giving only a part of the community the right to vote sees very unfair to me. An easy way to fix these problems would be to simply give all past contributors the right to vote, unless they fail to respond to an email that asks them to confirm their wish to still have the voting right. This could be combined with a minimum threshold (e.g. a minimum total amount of contributions or of contribution days/months). I will not discuss the minor problems now, because I fear personal attacks from people who have a different motivation for contributing if I point these out. If the OSMF is willing to adress the major problems, then I might also contribute some ideas about how to fix the minor issues, but I will not do so while the threat to remove me from the community by force is still active. Olaf _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
