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From: "Rob Myers" <r...@robmyers.org>
To: <legal-talk@openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Noise vs unanswered questions
On 09/02/2010 04:16 PM, Maarten Deen wrote:
There was some
discussion on how the group wanting to move should be measured, by
number of people, by number of edits/contributions possibly only
measured over a certain period, but AFAIK no consensus has been reached
there.
The idea is that people will "vote with their feet" by agreeing or not to
the new terms. However many votes OSM has or does not have, that is the
only measure that will count in the end.
Which, lets face it, is not the generally accepted idea of what a vote is.
Most people, I believe, would think that the idea of a vote is asking the
contributors "do you think something should happen", yes or no, then if the
answer is yes proceeding with the course of action.
What you are saying is that the "vote" is proceeding with the course of
action, and if people don't like it they can leave the project. This is not
the same as the above paragraph.
Not only is it not the same but it begs the question of what happens if such
a large percentage of the contributors don't agree the CT's. Do you then go
back to those that have agreed them and ask them to agree to the old terms?
David
If that is consensus to you... Let's put it this way: if that is
consensus to the people wanting the move and the people in charge of the
license that governs OSM, then I guess the license move is imminent and
undebatable.
Relicencing is the result of a public process that was started some years
ago. The move should be imminent (some people are complaining it is taking
too long) but it is not a foregone conclusion (nobody can be *forced* to
relicence) and constructive questions about the CTs and the process are
being taken on board as far as I can tell.
- Rob.
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