Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Proposed "Metadata"-Guideline

2015-09-21 Thread Simon Poole 


Am 21.09.2015 um 14:01 schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer:
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> I don't believe that the restaurant star rating is a good example, as
> we don't rate restaurants ourselves,

I'm using a hypothetical, but "in principle could be possible" example
on purpose for the negative scenario.

> and copying the rating from other professional restaurant testers
> might even be an infraction of their intellectual property.
That is really substantially off topic in this thread.

Simon



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Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Proposed "Metadata"-Guideline

2015-09-21 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer 
2015-09-21 12:43 GMT+02:00 Simon Poole :

> I have to say that I'm not completely happy with the document as is,
> however nobody has come up with anything better. It will definitely need
> some more examples in a final version.
>


I don't believe that the restaurant star rating is a good example, as we
don't rate restaurants ourselves, and copying the rating from other
professional restaurant testers might even be an infraction of their
intellectual property.


Cheers,
Martin
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[OSM-legal-talk] Proposed "Metadata"-Guideline

2015-09-21 Thread Simon Poole 
Dear All

One of the big grey areas remaining wrt our distribution licence is
defining if, and how you can link from external data to an OpenStreetMap
derived dataset. Nailing this down is, in my opinion, key to progress in
getting rid of other areas of contention (for example geo-coding).

In the past it seems that most people that have engaged in the
discussion in principle would be happy with the "Fairhurst Doctrine"
however we have had trouble actually turning that in to a usable text.
I've now drafted a proposal that tries to actually express the essence
of the doctrine while at the same time remaining compatible with the the
"Horizontal Layers" guideline.

The proposal is here
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_Metadata_Guideline

The relevant discussion pages
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Metadata_Layers_-_Guideline

I have to say that I'm not completely happy with the document as is,
however nobody has come up with anything better. It will definitely need
some more examples in a final version.

Simon



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