Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-17 Thread John Smith
On 17 July 2010 10:27, Simon Ward si...@bleah.co.uk wrote: I’m probably missing something again… Please explain how you will not be able to make an informed decision once the license question has been put to contributors. I will, but at that point I will no longer have any chances to exercise

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-17 Thread Chris Fleming
On 16/07/10 14:03, TimSC wrote: James Livingston wrote: / Although, as Simon Ward said Everyone has a say on whether their contributions can be licensed under the new license., I am uncomfortable with the ODbL process and I resent not being polled before the license change was decided. OSMF

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Fwd: Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-17 Thread Liz
On Sat, 17 Jul 2010, Simon Ward wrote: On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 07:07:19AM +1000, Liz wrote: - There is no tool yet to see the impact of the relicensing to the data. But this is the key need for those who are rather interested in the data than the legalese. Please develop the tool first or

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Fwd: Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-17 Thread Simon Ward
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 04:55:36PM +1000, Liz wrote: just to make it clear, I'm not the author, I forwarded a mail by Roland Olbricht roland.olbri...@gmx.de My apologies. I didn’t mean to mis‐quote. Simon -- A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-17 Thread 80n
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Chris Fleming m...@chrisfleming.org wrote: Although the intent of ODBl is to provide the protections we thought we were getting with CC-BY-SA; if we were to go to something *completely* different then I can image these discussions getting *really* nasty.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-17 Thread Rob Myers
On 07/17/2010 04:04 AM, Diane Peters wrote: The assertion above, that Science Commons seems to think that copyright doesn't apply to databases, is not correct. I am sorry for misrepresenting SC's views on this. One other point worth mentioning, this one in response to another suggestion

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-17 Thread Rob Myers
On 07/16/2010 09:58 PM, Liz wrote: After a recent High Court decision, in Australia copyright is not applicable to databases. Maps were not included in the Court decision, but a database was the subject of the case. If this is the case then given that the CC licences are copyright licences

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-17 Thread John Smith
On 17 July 2010 18:34, Heiko Jacobs heiko.jac...@gmx.de wrote: I saw anywhere in the deeps of discussion at legal, that also the new licence does not protect data in australia ...? Mmmmh ... No, someone was claiming cc-by licenses we're valid in Australia, as a reason to change to ODBL, if that

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-17 Thread John Smith
On 17 July 2010 20:11, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: If this is the case then given that the CC licences are copyright licences what would they apply to in the OSM database in Australia? The court case in question was over facts, dates and times and show names, IceTV who instigated this

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-17 Thread Heiko Jacobs
John Smith schrieb: On 17 July 2010 18:34, Heiko Jacobs heiko.jac...@gmx.de wrote: I saw anywhere in the deeps of discussion at legal, that also the new licence does not protect data in australia ...? Mmmmh ... No, someone was claiming cc-by licenses we're valid in Australia, as a reason to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-17 Thread John Smith
On 17 July 2010 21:57, Heiko Jacobs heiko.jac...@gmx.de wrote: Did I misunderstood the posting below because of not perfect english? I was thinking about a different email, however it's the same case but has the wrong interpretation as to the scope.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-17 Thread John Smith
On 17 July 2010 22:04, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 July 2010 21:57, Heiko Jacobs heiko.jac...@gmx.de wrote: Did I misunderstood the posting below because of not perfect english? I was thinking about a different email, however it's the same case but has the wrong

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-17 Thread Rob Myers
On 07/17/2010 12:30 PM, John Smith wrote: On 17 July 2010 20:11, Rob Myersr...@robmyers.org wrote: If this is the case then given that the CC licences are copyright licences what would they apply to in the OSM database in Australia? The court case in question was over facts, dates and times

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-17 Thread John Smith
On 18 July 2010 00:53, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: There has been discussion in the past about how creative the various levels of OSM are (my personal opinion is raw data:not, edited and combined ways:possibly, rendered maps:definitely). The outcome wasn't to rely on creativity. ;-)

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-17 Thread Rob Myers
On 07/17/2010 04:01 PM, John Smith wrote: On 18 July 2010 00:53, Rob Myersr...@robmyers.org wrote: There has been discussion in the past about how creative the various levels of OSM are (my personal opinion is raw data:not, edited and combined ways:possibly, rendered maps:definitely). The

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-17 Thread 80n
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: On 07/17/2010 12:30 PM, John Smith wrote: On 17 July 2010 20:11, Rob Myersr...@robmyers.org wrote: If this is the case then given that the CC licences are copyright licences what would they apply to in the OSM database in

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-17 Thread Rob Myers
On 07/17/2010 04:13 PM, 80n wrote: What's your source for the assertion that we shouldn't rely on creativity? I didn't assert that we *shouldn't*. - Rob. ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-17 Thread John Smith
On 18 July 2010 06:23, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: On 07/17/2010 04:13 PM, 80n wrote: What's your source for the assertion that we shouldn't rely on creativity? I didn't assert that we *shouldn't*. You implied one or more people made that claim, what was their reasoning for this?

[OSM-legal-talk] Mixing ODbL and CC-BY-SA databases

2010-07-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, here's an interesting one. Suppose OSM has just changed its license to ODbL. A final CC-BY-SA planet has been released, non-relicensed data has been removed from the servers, and the project is again humming along nicely (relief!). Now I would like to make a slippy map overlay where

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Mixing ODbL and CC-BY-SA databases

2010-07-17 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi,   here's an interesting one. Suppose OSM has just changed its license to ODbL. A final CC-BY-SA planet has been released, non-relicensed data has been removed from the servers, and the project is again humming

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Mixing ODbL and CC-BY-SA databases

2010-07-17 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Frederik posts many wonderful hypothetical situations. ;-) Here's a completely hypothetical situation. What if I want to import OSM POIs into Wikipedia. Wikipedia is, of course, under CC-BY-SA.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Mixing ODbL and CC-BY-SA databases

2010-07-17 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: The user is looking at produced works, ccbysa for the ccbysa tiles, your choice for the ODbL tiles. Here's another completely hypothetical situation. What if I use CC-BY-SA for the ODbL tiles. And then someone else

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-17 Thread James Livingston
On 17/07/2010, at 4:12 AM, Simon Ward wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:01:08PM +1000, James Livingston wrote: * It also uses contract law, which makes things a *lot* more complicated Despite my strong bias towards copyleft, I thought this was a problem with the license. Unfortunately

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Upgrading to future ODbL version

2010-07-17 Thread James Livingston
On 17/07/2010, at 4:58 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: I noticed something that had escaped my attention until now. The contributor terms say that OSMF will release the data under ODbL 1.0, CC-BY-SA 2.0 or another free and open license accepted by 2/3 of active members. Notice the absence of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-17 Thread James Livingston
On 17/07/2010, at 6:34 PM, Heiko Jacobs wrote: Michael Barabanov schrieb: Consider two cases: 1. Current license does not cover the OSM data (I think that's the OSMF view). In this case, OSMF can just change to ODBL without asking anyone. 2. Current license does cover the OSM data.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-17 Thread 80n
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: On 07/17/2010 04:13 PM, 80n wrote: What's your source for the assertion that we shouldn't rely on creativity? I didn't assert that we *shouldn't*. I know you didn't. But somebody did. What's your source for the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-17 Thread John Smith
On 18 July 2010 15:18, Gervase Markham gerv-gm...@gerv.net wrote: On 15/07/10 14:34, John Smith wrote: How many governments can change a constitution without less than 50% voting, Of the people? The US and the EU, to name but two. When did EU member nations agree to become a country?