On 07/23/2010 04:41 PM, Anthony wrote:
I guess you're saying the lawyers who have advised the OSMF are not reasonable people?
The perpetual discussion over licenses is very tiring, but I can put up with that. What I just can't tolerate is this kind of argument that professional lawyers have some absolute authority, that trumps every contributor's opinion. I'm not saying that these lawyers are wrong, but the argument that they are correct because they are professionals is a stupid kind of argument. It's like saying that professional programmers wrote this software, so now we can't ever modify it. Most people are involved in free software and open content projects exactly because they don't like being told such things. If these lawyers told OSMF board to push totalitarian authority as an argument towards contributors in an open content project, then you should ask to get your money back, because that would be useless advice. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk