Hi Grant, can I still expect a contructive reply to my email answering your question about my concerns, or should I simply hit the „decline“ button?
Olaf [Olaf Schmidt-Wischhöfer, 17.06.2011, 14:53]: > 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 > legal-talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
