Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: incompatibility issues

2009-03-02 Thread Peter Miller
On 2 Mar 2009, at 07:38, Gustav Foseid wrote: On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Not so, it turns out; the "Produced Work" freedom allows us to combine OSM data *only* with other data whose license does not prohibit the addition of constraints, because ODbL mandates that we

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: incompatibility issues

2009-03-02 Thread 80n
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > >until recently I was under the impression that with the "Produced > Work" freedom we would finally be able to create, say, a map that > combines content from other "copyleft" licenses like CC-BY-SA-NC or GFDL > with OpenStreetMap c

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] The Illustrated ODbL

2009-03-02 Thread 80n
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:11 AM, wrote: > Hi all, > > I've attempted to illustrate ways to use the OpenStreetMap database under > ODbL and comply with the ODbL obligations. > > legal-talk: patches welcome! > talk: perhaps you'll find the illustration instructive without having to > participate in

[OSM-legal-talk] Who is ODC and why do we trust them?

2009-03-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Grant wrote in his announcement: "... Therefore, we have worked with the license authors and others to build a suitable home where a community and process can be built around it. Its new home is with the Open Data Commons http://www.opendatacommons.org."; In my opinion, the ODbL is a

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: incompatibility issues

2009-03-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, 80n wrote: > I can imagine a scenario where, for example, Google uses Amazon's Mechanical > Turk to pay lots of people to use Map Maker to trace from OSM's rendered > tiles. Is this a scenario we could try to fight when it happens, instead of complicating things upfront, or would it be too l

[OSM-legal-talk] Who is ODC and why do we trust them?

2009-03-02 Thread Peter Miller
On 2 Mar 2009, at 08:29, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > >Grant wrote in his announcement: > > "... Therefore, we have worked with the license authors and others to > build a suitable home where a community and process can be built > around > it. Its new home is with the Open Data Commons > ht

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: incompatibility issues

2009-03-02 Thread Peter Miller
On 2 Mar 2009, at 08:51, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > "This license explicitly allows the distribution of a Produced Work > under any of the following licenses: GPL v2 or later, GFDL, CC-SA, > CC-BY-SA, CC-BY-SA-NC. In addition, a Produced Work may be distributed > under any other license that compli

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: incompatibility issues

2009-03-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Peter Miller wrote: > When we find an issue like this then lets document it on the wiki and > move on to the next topic. If we move too quickly then the importance of the topic may not be understood by many, and the Wiki page later brushed aside as "minor issues". I would like, for each t

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: incompatibility issues

2009-03-02 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/3/2 Frederik Ramm : > 80n wrote: >> I can imagine a scenario where, for example, Google uses Amazon's Mechanical >> Turk to pay lots of people to use Map Maker to trace from OSM's rendered >> tiles. > > Is this a scenario we could try to fight when it happens, instead of > complicating things

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Who is ODC and why do we trust them?

2009-03-02 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Peter Miller wrote: >Sent: 02 March 2009 8:57 AM >To: Licensing and other legal discussions. >Subject: [OSM-legal-talk] Who is ODC and why do we trust them? > > >On 2 Mar 2009, at 08:29, Frederik Ramm wrote: > >> Hi, >> >>Grant wrote in his announcement: >> >> "... Therefore, we have worked wit

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Who is ODC and why do we trust them?

2009-03-02 Thread Peter Miller
On 2 Mar 2009, at 09:30, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: >> >> >> Btw, we don't have any published minutes from the OSMF for Jan or Feb >> 09 yet so we have no visibility of what decisions they have been >> making which is a shame. I will email them and suggest that they >> publish them to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A simplification of the agreement on the signup page.

2009-03-02 Thread Rob Myers
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Simon Ward wrote: > On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 11:30:41AM -0500, Russ Nelson wrote: >> Creative Commons license (by-sa). or under the ODbL. If you choose not to >> give us your email address, or your email address stops working, you >> waive all right to ownership of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Concerns about ODbL

2009-03-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, OJ W wrote: > the ability to create an uncopiable map image from OSM data > does seem to have appeared in the ODbL license? You can create an image and (provided that your image is not a data base, a distinction that has not yet been resolved) restrict copying of the image. This is essenti

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Concerns about ODbL

2009-03-02 Thread Rob Myers
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 12:40 PM, wrote: > I found out recently about the license change issue, and I discover with > fear that everything looks decided. I feel I'm being rushed. The licence discussion has been going on for a couple of *years* now. It needs resolving as soon as possible. But pe

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Concerns about ODbL

2009-03-02 Thread OJ W
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > OJ W wrote: >> the ability to create an uncopiable map image from OSM data >> does seem to have appeared in the ODbL license? > > You can create an image and (provided that your image is not a data > base, a distinction that has not yet been r

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Factual Information License and Produced Works?

2009-03-02 Thread Gustav Foseid
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: > That's called the "stupid jurisdictions" clause. > > Just because facts are free in your jurisdiction doesn't mean all > jurisdictions in the world think the same. Look at the CC0 and CC-PD > licenses. > Well, kind of. But would not a

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Concerns about ODbL

2009-03-02 Thread Rob Myers
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:35 PM, OJ W wrote: > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: >> OJ W wrote: >>> the ability to create an uncopiable map image from OSM data >>> does seem to have appeared in the ODbL license? >> >> You can create an image and (provided that your image is not

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Factual Information License and Produced Works?

2009-03-02 Thread Rob Myers
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Gustav Foseid wrote: > On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Iván Sánchez Ortega > wrote: >> >> That's called the "stupid jurisdictions" clause. >> >> Just because facts are free in your jurisdiction doesn't mean all >> jurisdictions in the world think the same. Look at

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Concerns about ODbL

2009-03-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, OJ W wrote: > Exactly, so the ODbL has a political choice to license OSM map images > as PD (that can trivially be made uncopiable) I think your introduction of PD into this discussion is entirely unnecessary. If you make a Produced Work from an ODbL licensed database, then you can immedi

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] compatibility with CC licenses

2009-03-02 Thread Grant Slater
Gustav Foseid wrote: > > A user in the EU downloads the database (planet.osm in OSM), modifies > it (simplifies ways and merges dual carriageways, for instance) and > puts this derived database (planet-modified.osm) on a FTP server, > along with a readme.txt containing the license, in a zip file

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Concerns about ODbL

2009-03-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Jean-Christophe Haessig wrote: > I surely understand that contributors’ names won’t disappear from OSM > itself, however with that clause, someone might make a copy of the > database, remove the names and redistribute it (only attributing to > OSM), which will in effect disable the users of th

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] compatibility with CC licenses

2009-03-02 Thread Gustav Foseid
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Grant Slater wrote: > There has been some discussion of adding a tag into the planet.osm > header detailing that the data is licensed. > Also adding some contract text on http://planet.openstreetmap.org/ to > cover our non-eu-database-right friends. Take a closer

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] compatibility with CC licenses

2009-03-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Grant, Grant Slater wrote: > There has been some discussion of adding a tag into the planet.osm > header detailing that the data is licensed. Actually this is exactly what the license suggests: Quoting 4.2 (b) "[You must] Include a copy of this Licence [...] or its Uniform Resource Identifier

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Factual Information License and Produced Works?

2009-03-02 Thread Jean-Christophe Haessig
Le lundi 02 mars 2009 à 13:28 +0100, Iván Sánchez Ortega a écrit : > > The Factual information license, seems to be a bit schizophrenic. It says Huh? Now there are two licenses? > > both that facts are free, and that these free facts cannot be used without > > including a license... Facts are f

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] compatibility with CC licenses

2009-03-02 Thread Gustav Foseid
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Quoting 4.2 (b) > > "[You must] Include a copy of this Licence [...] or > its Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) [...] both in the Database [...] > and in any relevant documentation" Sorry, overlooked that. If this is in the planet.osm (or

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Factual Information License and Produced Works?

2009-03-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Jean-Christophe Haessig wrote: > Otherwise, anyone could make legal copies of nearly any photography > (e.g. landscapes) Photography is regarded as an art form by the law and the photographer usually enjoys copyright because it is assumed that the selection of the motive, and daytime, and a

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Factual Information License and Produced Works?

2009-03-02 Thread Ulf Möller
80n schrieb: > As far as I know there has been no attention paid to the FIL. It was > grabbed at the last minute from here It doesn't look like it has been reviewed thoroughly (and the co-ment page seem to be password protected.) The requirement to include a copy of the license pretty much d

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Concerns about ODbL

2009-03-02 Thread Jean-Christophe Haessig
Le lundi 02 mars 2009 à 14:14 +0100, Frederik Ramm a écrit : > No. If that were the case then OSM would have gone PD long ago and we > would all be mapping happily instead of wasting our time trying to > create freedom from the barrel of a license (kudos to JohnW for this > phrase). Ok, I beli

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Factual Information License and Produced Works?

2009-03-02 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
I'd like to clarify the reason for two (2) licenses. The FIL is being considered for individual "atoms" of data, while the ODbL is being considered for major chunks of the database? Is this correct? Would it be helpful to: [1] Determine what is an "atom" that the FIL would apply to. [2] Determin

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Lawyer responses to use cases, major problems

2009-03-02 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
Frederick Ramm wrote: "I'm surprised that nobody else seems to see a problem in this. Am I perhaps barking up some completely imaginary tree?" It seems like some others definitely share your concern. Thank you for bringing up the issue. Simon Ward wrote: "It gets more difficult when you start pro

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A simplification of the agreement on?the?signup page.

2009-03-02 Thread Simon Ward
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 05:05:00AM +, Jukka Rahkonen wrote: > > This needs a safeguard to allow for email addresses temporarily not > > working. I’m not even sure this is the right thing to do anyway. It’s > > far safer getting rid of a user’s data than it is assuming ownership of > > it. >

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: incompatibility issues

2009-03-02 Thread Simon Ward
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 08:08:58AM +, Peter Miller wrote: >> I do not read the ODbL this way. I read that only persons bound by the >> license/contract are prohibited from reverse engineering. >> Clarification here is needed. > > When we find an issue like this then lets document it on the w

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: incompatibility issues

2009-03-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Simon Ward wrote: > I’d prefer people carry on > discussing issues, here _and_ on the wiki, +1... discuss stuff here, record on the Wiki, so that when the time comes to judge whether a revised license addresses our concerns we can tick off the issues from the Wiki pages. Bye Frederik --

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Concerns about ODbL

2009-03-02 Thread Simon Ward
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 01:40:47PM +0100, jean-christophe.haes...@dianosis.org wrote: > * Waivers : thankfully I cannot legally waive my moral rights in my > country, but I think it is unfair to require this form any person in the > world. While I agree to collective attribution, I share some of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] regarding ODC and OKF

2009-03-02 Thread Ulf Möller
John Wilbanks schrieb: > In terms of OKF, hosting licenses is hard, and versioning licenses is > really hard, but OKF has been around for a while and is a solid group of > folks. If they are going to host your license you are way ahead of the > game in terms of having a group that is smart and