John, On 25 November 2010 20:15, john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just a comment from one of the 130 who has voted yes on the recommendation > of one of the people I thought was fairly sensible here and I now regret > taking his advice. I now strongly suspect I should have spent six months > wading through through the legal talk side of things rather than mapping > because a whole slew of issues seem to be coming up here. >
~4800 existing users have agreed to the Contributor Terms, this excludes the new OSM signups. Or are you discussing the foundation members vote? > I would like the ability to go back and change my vote. > > I don't like being told this is not the place for discussion of license > issues or concerns. In light of the recent involvement of Microsoft and > other large players I think there are perception problems that need to be > addressed. > Microsoft/Bing has spoken to the Licensing Working Group on 2 occasions. I flagged these up in the minutes. MapQuest has not spoken to the Licensing Grouping Group. > For example I'm very concerned that there is no plan to deal with the > transition to the new licensing model. > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Implementation_Plan If you would like expansion on the items ask. > Perhaps OSM should take note of the Open Data mob and be a little more open > about what is happening rather than trying to censure discussion on issues > and concerns which apparently have not been addressed by the decision > makers. They seem to have taken decisions but won't accept any > responsibility to address issues and concerns. I'm not asking to stay with > the old licenses necessarily but I would like to see some sort of plan and > if we can find a way to address the issues and concerns. > Censure discussion? Please expand. Moving licensing discussion to a dedicated public list is not censure in my view. There have been many round of question, answers and many revisions. The LWG spends at around 25% of their time just keeping minutes. I'm a member of the LWG, we are all volenteers with the exception of occasional member Steve Coast. Full minutes: http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Working_Group_Minutes Regards Grant _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
