On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 8:37 AM, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen
> Read it and you will understand why is some “democratic” countries > revolutions > > started. This Is what I call blackmail democracy. > > (the Poll does not even mention the CT) > > > FYI, the poll was opened the Dec 6, 2009 : in reaction to the license change proposal: http://www.osmfoundation.org/images/3/3c/License_Proposal.pdf published on this announcement: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/announce/2009-December/000007.html immediately forwarded on the talk list: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-December/045105.html and the long following thread... Indeed, on the first message sent by Ian Dees, we already see the question: "Is this email implying that contributers to OSM who are not members o the OSMF can not vote on the license decision?" For your information, Gert Gremmen, at that time, the CT - and even the concept of a CT - did not exist (or at least not publicly). I will not comment the license itself or the results (I never did) but I always said that my preference would have been that the foundation conducted such poll itself. Because the gem of OSM is not the foundation or its members but the contributors and nobody asked their opinion. Because only the admins had the means to make it more seriously - as I stated in my messages - but this poll was better than nothing and showed my frustration about the process. Anyway, once the fraction of the foundation members voted for the change and put the new license obligatory for new contributors, the game was over. Pieren
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