Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Critical Mass for license change-over

2012-01-29 Thread Dirk-Lüder Kreie
Am 28.01.2012 08:47, schrieb Mike Dupont: then I determined that I will not be able to accept the terms because someone, who is a Hasardeur in my humble opinion, decided to break compatiblity with the existing license and then, break from the idea that I own my data and ask me to hand over

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Critical Mass for license change-over

2012-01-29 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/1/29 Dirk-Lüder Kreie osm-l...@deelkar.net: demotivated by the data loss. but filling in gaps is really much quicker done than starting from scratch. +1, at least there already are tags for most things, comfortable editors and lots of experienced mappers ;-) cheers, Martin

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Critical Mass for license change-over

2012-01-29 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2012/1/29 Dirk-Lüder Kreie osm-l...@deelkar.net: I sort-of feel responsible for my areas of the map, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it my data. I contribute to this map, because I want free and open Geodata, for that to occur you need to put your data into the hands of the community of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Critical Mass for license change-over

2012-01-29 Thread Mike Dupont
I am going to explain my viewpoint on this. My understanding of copyleft is the idea that people who own the rights to their own work license it freely. Other people who license that work via copyleft are then allowed to create derived works, and adding in value create new works that are again

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Critical Mass for license change-over

2012-01-29 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: I am just explaining the legal basis behind copyright and copyleft : Copyright says that I own all my work and you have no right to copy it, copyleft says you are allowed to copy it under certain conditions

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] The Copyright of Split Ways

2012-01-29 Thread James Livingston
On 29 January 2012 09:03, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: I'm sure it is going to be tackled one way or the other but it really isn't the big issue some people seem to make of it. Splitting ways is a common thing but it is only relevant for the license change if an agreer splits a