[OSM-legal-talk] Is an object created by a non-agreer always tainted, even if all info has been deleted/changed by agreers?

2012-02-02 Thread Woll Newall
What is the consensus on the legal status of an object that has been created by a non-agreer, but all of the nodes and all of the tags have been deleted/changed by agreers? i.e.: 1) Non-agreer creates a way with tags 'name=A' and 'highway=tertiary', and 3 nodes (with no tags). 2) An agreer

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

2012-02-02 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 2 February 2012 15:11, Robert Kaiser ka...@kairo.at wrote: andrzej zaborowski schrieb: Yes, of course, I think it is Mike DuPont who said give away.  But obviously we're talking about the grant of rights. Yes, every open soruce license is a grant of rights, as that's the basic definition

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Is an object created by a non-agreer always tainted, even if all info has been deleted/changed by agreers?

2012-02-02 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM)
On 2 February 2012 13:43, Woll Newall w...@2-islands.com wrote: What is the consensus on the legal status of an object that has been created by a non-agreer, but all of the nodes and all of the tags have been deleted/changed by agreers? i.e.: 1) Non-agreer creates a way with tags 'name=A'

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Is an object created by a non-agreer always tainted, even if all info has been deleted/changed by agreers?

2012-02-02 Thread Spod
OK, so spelling corrections could be viewed as not removing the taint, because we can't tell if the agreer making the change used a odbl/CT-compatible source for the change or not. Thinking about it, other edits done by bots to normalise the tagging into a standard (e.g. changing something like