Richard while IMHO communications in OSM and out of OSM leave much to desire, in the case of the licence change there has been a substantial amount of communication to the mappers. The only reason I can see for you -not- getting a mail from the OSMF early on, is that you must have practically immediately declined when that became possible. And I assume the reasoning at that point in time was that as a decliner you were already informed about the issues and didn't need the OSMF pointing out something you already knew about.
Simon Am 31.03.2012 04:59, schrieb Richard Colless: > I did decline the new terms. And I was contacted, as I said, just > once, by someone trying to persuade me to change my mind. My point was > that OSM never contacted me to say that a licence change was being > considered. That is hardly the right way to go about making a major > change to the system. > > I also take issue with this statement: > Declining hurts fellow Australian mappers who have in good faith build > data on-top of your contributions and will leave animosity between our > projects. > Don't try blaming decliners for the hurt to other mappers. If anyone > built up on my edits, and their work gets deleted as a result, blame > OSM, not the members who declined. > > Richard > > > On 31/03/2012 12:36 PM, Ian Sergeant wrote: >> Hi Richard, >> >> Like or loathe the licence change, and the manner it has been >> pursued, sure. But I really don't think anyone in OSM has tried to >> keep the knowledge of the licence change quiet. I think a fair few >> people have been trying to get in touch with as many people as possible. >> >> I've personally tried contacting Australian contributors individually >> who haven't accepted or declined, and who haven't edited for a >> while. These are the people who may not be engaged with the >> community any longer, and who actually may not know about the licence >> change. Did you decline the licence change? Because if you did, I'd >> have assumed that you knew about it and were aware of the discussion, >> and therefore didn't need to be contacted. >> >> Thanks, >> Ian. >> >> On 31 March 2012 09:14, Richard Colless <fire...@ar.com.au >> <mailto:fire...@ar.com.au>> wrote: >> >> Thank you, John. I couldn't have expressed it better. >> >> Throughout this whole sorry story, I have only ever received ONE >> communication form OSM. It was a begging letter asking me to >> reconsider. If not for the discussion of the forum, I would not >> have even known about the licence change. AI think that shows how >> much OSM cares about keeping contributors informed about changes. >> >> Richard >> >> On 31/03/2012 7:43 AM, John Smith wrote: >> >> On 31 March 2012 01:54, Grant >> Slater<openstreet...@firefishy.com >> <mailto:openstreet...@firefishy.com>> wrote: >> >> Australian Decliners, >> >> As a mapper, contributor and member of the project's >> sysadmin team I >> kindly ask you to please reconsider your declined status. >> Time is >> about to run out. >> >> You and others didn't care about us, told us to go away as we >> were >> insignificant and our issue were unimportant and now you come >> begging >> for us to reconsider. >> >> Perhaps the whole license issue should be reconsidered, after >> all you >> are the one throwing out the baby with the bath water, you are >> choosing to do this, not us, perhaps you should choose to >> call the >> whole thing off. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-au mailing list >> Talk-au@openstreetmap.org <mailto:Talk-au@openstreetmap.org> >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
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