On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 12:39:11PM +0100, Rob Myers wrote: > On 09/02/2010 11:24 AM, TimSC wrote:
> >1) How is the future direction of OSM determined? Community consensus? > >OSMF committees with OSMF votes? Something else? > > Consensus decision making doesn't mean a 100% plebiscite vote or > minority veto power. It means an honest attempt to converge on a > compromise. Given this, the ODbL does represent community consensus. > It represents a compromise between many different ideological > positions present in the community around the norms that have > emerged in discussion over the years. I don’t see much compromise happening from OSMF on the contributor terms. There is a very small amount, but OSMF seems to want to stick as close to what they have, with no chance of what they consider a significant change. The contributor terms are now the sticking point for many people against the ODbL+DbCL+CT combination, and these are not just people against a licence change from CC by-sa, but people who are in principle happy with the licence change. These contributor terms define a large part of how the future direction of OSM may be determined. Simon -- A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.—John Gall
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