On 5/12/10 10:19 AM, SteveC wrote: > It's pretty bonkers. Anyone is welcome to join the LWG call each week or read > the minutes, and be as involved as you like. > > License changes will always throw up people who don't like it, and the LWG > has been going through peoples legitimate and illegitimate concerns for two > years I think it's been now. We've had lawyers checking everything at every > step of the way. So it's very frustrating for those involved after so much > effort to finally be able to make one step towards completion, and have > people throw stones like this. > > Because, after all if you do your homework CCBYSA is a total mess for OSM and > all the LWG is trying to do is fix that mess. > yes. i haven't really been following the licensing closely, but after the email from Chris, i went through the wiki page outlining the issues. from where i sit (as of this past monday, working at a major corporation that _may_ use OSM in a logistics application), this change is pretty much necessary for OSM to achieve its goals. my new employer runs all this stuff through their lawyers; they would probably not approve the CCBYSA and probably would approve the new license, as it rather exactly addresses the things that they worry about.
so i will continue to contribute to OSM and i will consent to the new license when the time comes. richard _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
