I thought there was no risk here. The licensing terms were clearly stated as 
open and last I checked, data cannot be licensed. 

What would be the basis of any data ownership claim? If this is a device map 
concern, why is it showing up in the openddr commit?

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-----Original Message-----
From: Werner Keil <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:15:41 
To: <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: DDR Resources

Hi,

Given some or a lot was removed due to the risk of license or "data
ownership" claim issues from previous contributions (even if those were
contributed by people from the community who are even more unhappy about
how the WURFL fraction treats their contributions now) most of these are
unavoidable.

If you and other proper members of Apache community contribute those BACK
to DeviceMap I don't think anybody or anything can keep you from doing so,
but they can't just be copied over from some other files.

Regards,
Werner

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:05 PM, eberhard speer jr. <[email protected]>wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> I'm sorry, but aside from the fact that "smaller" and "fewer" is a bit
> of an understatement (72% smaller and 95% fewer), I seems to me that
> there was indeed a serious mistake and that is that such a dramatic
> change occurred -- whatever the reason may be -- without any
> accompanying or better yet, prior announcement or explanation !
>
> Apart from that, even if the data is more up to date or more reliable,
> these sudden changes have serious implications for its usefulness : it
> is not as if 'old' devices ceased to exist and some of the 464
> properties that disappeared are pretty important if not vital, like
> UAProf to name but one.
>
> I would imagine there are now a lot of 'unhappy campers' around and
> I'm one of them.
>
> Regards,
>
> esjr
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