Serge Wroclawski-2 wrote: > > Next, about a year later, a vote amongst OSMF membership was > taken.This isn't the board, but the entire membership. Since it was a > decision that was to effect the direction of the OSMF, this makes > sense to me.. > This was before my time, but from what I understand it was not a vote on whether to switch to ODbL, but whether to start the process of creating a license and deciding whether we should switch.
Serge Wroclawski-2 wrote: > > Still, shortly thereafter (a couple of months later I believe), the > another poll was taken of all OSM members, OSMF or not, and the > results were largely the same. This was done on the talk list. > > Then someone from the community against the ODbL felt the first poll > may not have been entirely on the up and up, and made their own. And > the results were nearly identical to the first two polls. > I ignored these unofficial polls as meaningless, and probably many others did too (or didn't even know about them, not being on the talk list). Here in Florida when they put a constitutional amendment on the ballot, it has a brief description and a short summary of its effects. Applied to an ODbL vote, this would comprise how the OSMF believes cc-by-sa is flawed and the effect it will have on the contributions of those who do not agree to the change. -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Join-the-OSMF-tp6461437p6470068.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
