Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL implementation plan - extra phase proposal

2012-01-31 Thread Jonathan Harley
On 30/01/12 23:41, LM_1 wrote: ... That said there are other ways to ensure the goal of this suggestion - seamless transition rather than deletions and angry/leaving contributors. One that comes to my mind and does not require any drastic changes would utilise filtering feature of JOSM (and

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

2012-01-31 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 30 January 2012 15:21, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: andrzej zaborowski wrote: (I thought it is i-i+j, at least in JOSM it was up to some point) It is. But it's very difficult to extract that with certainty from a non-trivial changeset. Add enough splits, and you may find

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

2012-01-31 Thread Robert Kaiser
andrzej zaborowski schrieb: I'm not sure if I would have joined OSM in the first place if it had not used this wikipedia model at this time, same as I haven't contributed (more than bug reports) to FSF or Mozilla owned projects. Interesting to see Mozilla mentioned here as clearly every

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

2012-01-31 Thread Robert Kaiser
Mike Dupont schrieb: This is my understanding. all of my edits belong to me, they are my contributions that I then willingly share with others. This is exactly what the CTs say. You sign there that you own your edit and grant the OSMF to sub-license it if needed and under well-defined terms.

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

2012-01-31 Thread andrzej zaborowski
Hi Robert, On 31 January 2012 21:53, Robert Kaiser ka...@kairo.at wrote: andrzej zaborowski schrieb: I'm not sure if I would have joined OSM in the first place if it had not used this wikipedia model at this time, same as I haven't contributed (more than bug reports) to FSF or Mozilla owned

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL implementation plan - extra phase proposal

2012-01-31 Thread LM_1
Generally there should be less incompatible data every day, however there still some imports of non-copyrightable (PD, government licensed) that were uploaded by users who did not agree to CT. Because of this the incompatibility test would have to be re-run periodically. (and maybe if some