[odc-discuss] Allow more time: license is not for OSM data only

Tue Mar 10 10:21:01 UTC 2009

Jordan S Hatcher <jordan at opencontentlawyer.com> wrote:
> On 9 Mar 2009, at 16:08, Andrea Musuruane wrote:
> > I suggest to do press releases to relevant open source sites and
> > communities to gain a broader audience for the license discussion.
>
> I'm not sure what a press release ads other than work for us.  Pinging  
> through an email, as you've done to Red Hat Legal, sounds like the  
> best plan to me.  If you'd like to draft a press release or a short  
> template email to notify people, then please feel free to jump in and  
> do so.  Also, feel free to create a list on the wiki of people who  
> should be notified and start ticking them off.

A press release gets the news out there.  Yes, we could create a list
on the wiki of people who should be notified but, to reuse Rufus:
For our part I must point out that, for this task, at present,
software.coop has only very limited resources -- no dedicated budget
and the efforts of a small group of people giving their time pro bono.

So, we really don't want to waste effort repeating work, doing
unnecessary extra research trying to discover what's already been
done, or generally trying to collaborate with a group as unresponsive
as FSF's v3 drafting party.

I've added news release(s) and invite people to the consultation to
the wiki task list, but perhaps someone from ODC/OKFN could start the
list of who to invite by answering:

2. who has been invited to pay attention here so far?

This question was dodged in the Mon Mar 9 11:57:40 GMT 2009 email and
that's pretty discouraging.

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