On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 11:20:27 -0400 Russ Nelson <nel...@crynwr.com> wrote:
> I think Frederick gave you the best answer possible. It's not that the > community was *asked* by some overarching committee, but instead that > it just floated up. Like a turd in the toilet. Frankly, I never > thought it would come to actually deleting data. I always thought that > that was OBVIOUSLY so insane that *somebody* would have killed the > idea of relicensing. > > The trouble is, is that, just as no one person is responsible for > creating the idea, no one person has the ability to kill it. Maybe > SteveC, but he's convinced that Google is going to steal our data. As > if our data had any value once separated from the community that keeps > it alive. > -russ One of my questions, waiting a very long time for an answer, is "What are the instructions of the OSMF Board to the Licensing Working Group" A corporate structure sets up committees. The Board gives the committee a set of instructions. The committees are answerable to the Board. Now was the instruction "find out if we need a new licence, and if so look around for one" or was it "find a way to put the OSM data under this new licence". >From there it will be quite evident exactly which group of persons made this decision. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
