Re: [OSM-legal-talk] instead of replacing data can I just revert to the last known clean version?

2011-12-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
Maning, On 12/16/11 08:26, maning sambale wrote: As what the subjects says, instead of removing and recreating tainted data, I think it's best (in some cases) to revert to the last known clean version. This makes sense. Sometimes you will not even have to revert to a last known clean

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] instead of replacing data can I just revert to the last known clean version?

2011-12-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 12/16/11 12:12, Ed Avis wrote: I guess ct=clean would be better since there may be data which is usable under the CTs but is not yet distributable under ODbL+DbCL. But are we interested in such data? I mean - if there *was* data not usable under ODbL, then it would be a good idea to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] instead of replacing data can I just revert to the last known clean version?

2011-12-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 12/16/11 14:08, Steve Bennett wrote: ,,, suddenly isn't that clear-cut anymore. Has user C really surveyed the place, or has he maybe just run a bot that used complex rules to fix names? Do we have any clear policy spelling out what constitutes clean? No. Presumably there are some

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Copyright status of OSM map data - publishable memo for USA

2011-12-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 12/08/2011 02:20 PM, Ed Avis wrote: They produced a written report I am intrigued by the joint authorship concept. If that was true (relatively) universally, then we could perhaps use that to force even those who haven't agreed to the license change to allow us (their co-authors) to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Poland

2011-12-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 12/06/2011 11:16 PM, Simon Poole wrote: Not that this is confidential, but this should have actually gone to the LWG. Happens to me all the time. Stupid auto-completion. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Community norms

2011-11-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 11/29/11 11:49, Ed Avis wrote: I think you have to be careful about going too far with community norms. Of course. They must not introduce new material, but they can be used to clarify areas where things aren't crystal clear. Community norms can serve to narrow the permission (as

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 11/28/11 10:43, 80n wrote: If you cannot reproduce the Produced Work 100% faithfully from the Derived Database in what sense does the Derived Database contain all of the information required to create the Produced Work? It doesn't, and it doesn't have to. Only in so far as the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 11/28/11 11:58, 80n wrote: That's a very fine line you are trying to draw. Yes, I agree it is difficult. I think that it is entirely possible to arrive at an identical end product through different processes, where one process has different license implications than the other. For

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
, it does protect OSM's database all right, but drawing lines onto a printed-out image is not making a derived database (and frankly I wouldn't be all that interested in the geometry of those). Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-27 Thread Frederik Ramm
under the Produced Works provision. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] The detrimental effects of database

2011-11-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 11/23/11 15:16, fk270...@fantasymail.de wrote: Currently, the LWG intends to delete all nodes ever created by decliners or non-responders. That is correct as far as I know. There is no contributor who has ever contributed even a 50% majority of nodes on these routes. However, they

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] The detrimental effects of database

2011-11-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
a solid foundation for the future, than build on sand just to get it done quicker. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http

[OSM-legal-talk] License Change and Object History

2011-10-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
to fill all these holes, this one being CC-By-SA licensed. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] I want my access back

2011-08-10 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 08/10/11 08:38, Stephan Knauss wrote: You're wrong with this. At least in the country I'm most active the transition to ODbL ready data is making huge progress. And it's not someone else's benefit, but a benefit for the whole community. I, too, am positively surprised by the speed and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] I want my access back

2011-08-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
; we'd rather patch things up *before* we switch. And this is not a recent change of plans; it was always planned to wait until it is feasible to make the switch. Personally, I expect it to happen in the first half of 2012 but I have no LWG inside knowledge. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] I want my access back

2011-08-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Frederik Ramm wrote: Gert, you seem to be under the impression that the license change process has somehow failed just because we're still handing out the planet under CC-BY-SA. But you are wrong; this has always been the case. Maybe that too, but I meant to write this has always been

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Guidelines on interpretation of section 4.6 od ODbL

2011-07-10 Thread Frederik Ramm
but I dont't think it makes sense to require that the method be described in a file. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

2011-07-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
Simon, Andreas, all, when discussing these things with the person who goes by the pseudonym of John Smith, keep in mind that he is spending a lot of time building/supporting an OpenStreetMap fork. The forkers, as I like to call them, are driven by all kinds of motivations, the most

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

2011-07-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
failed to mention explicitly) that we are talking about nodes _that are used by a way_. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

2011-07-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
but there will always be an element of judgement. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

[OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

2011-07-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
is clearly a derived work of version 1. You could also say: no, because the information added in version 2 (new coordinates) overwrites all information that was there from version 1, so there is nothing left to be protected. Opinions? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Exception in Open Data License/Community Guidelines for temporary file

2011-06-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 06/29/11 05:21, James Livingston wrote: I don't think it would be treated differently, because I believe that an in-memory data structure would still be a database (in the ODbL and database right sense of database). I don't see how the storage mechanism makes a difference. Would you

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs are not full copyright assignment

2011-06-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
determine what flexibility we have, if any. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Exception in Open Data License/Community Guidelines for temporary file

2011-06-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
happened in the black box, because you only have to share the last in a chain of derived databases that leads to a produced work, right? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Exception in Open Data License/Community Guidelines for temporary file

2011-06-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
it. Our community norm currently says it is a database if it was intended to extract the data... some time in the past someone said it is a database if you say it is one. Maybe that wasn't so bad after all. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Exception in Open Data License/Community Guidelines for temporary file

2011-06-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
the data. It didn't work out in the end but the intention was there... ) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs are not full copyright assignment

2011-06-26 Thread Frederik Ramm
to change them in this respect; changing the future-relicense-process in the CT would in my opinion render the existing CT agreements invalid and we'd have to start all over again! Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Exception in Open Data License/Community Guidelines for temporary file

2011-06-22 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 06/22/11 15:18, ThomasB wrote: My point is that a user of software, and this is not limited to Garmin map software, may not know what a software does in the background i.e. if it is creating a (temporary) Derivative Database, a Collective Database or whatever. Yes. The software might

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] section 4.6 of ODbL was [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
of OSM just because you have a historic tile on your server. See also the work-in-progress page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Trivial_Transformations_-_Guideline Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
contributes them to OSM under CC-By-SA and CT/ODbL. Duh. Does that mean I don't get to delete the Australian coastline in the end? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 06/17/11 11:18, John Smith wrote: Only if the amount of data traced is not substantial. CC-by-SA makes no such distinction, it's either cc-by-sa or it's not cc-by-sa, so which license can tiles be put under? Sorry, I thought you had asked about tracing from tiles. Tiles can be put

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] data derived from UK Ordnace Survey

2011-06-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 06/16/11 10:55, Richard Fairhurst wrote: In the event of a future relicensing, LWG and the community would need to check existing data and delete it if so. Does that not effectively rule out any future relicensing because the burden of checking existing data is just too high? I mean,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] data derived from UK Ordnace Survey

2011-06-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 06/16/11 12:31, Dermot McNally wrote: Does that not effectively rule out any future relicensing because the burden of checking existing data is just too high? I mean, how would one even *begin* to perform such a check, given that nobody is actually obliged to tell us what license

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Private negotiations

2011-06-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
though this may sound conflicting, an effort should be made to involve TimSC in AoA discussions, or he should be encouraged to stand for election to the board, because see first two paragraphs. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs are not full copyright assignment

2011-06-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
was unwilling to submit to a 2/3 majority, but requested the option to veto any future license change for his data. If that is the case he's talking about then this is really far beyond what the sysadmins want or don't want... Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs are not full copyright assignment

2011-06-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
(e.g. something that is covered by a patent may not fall under CC-BY-SA's share-alike). Who's to say what counts? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs are not full copyright assignment

2011-06-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 06/07/11 10:35, Ed Avis wrote: The process is pretty simple really: - decide what licence you want without bothering to hold a vote - get everyone to sign up to new contributor terms allowing that licence - block anyone who says no from contributing and presto! you have your 2/3 majority

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Remapping before license change (was Re: CTs are not full copyright assignment)

2011-06-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
unnecessary, I'd certainly not waste my time on this list. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Collective database

2011-06-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 06/06/11 12:56, Kirill Bestoujev wrote: The resulting map (a single file) contains data from both sources. Can this resulting map (which is a database by its inside structure) treated as a collective database? I believe so. In my opinion, a derived database would result if you were to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Phase 4 and what it means

2011-06-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
half of it was based on false assumptions. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Phase 4 and what it means

2011-06-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
not be of any use currently. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Phase 4 and what it means

2011-06-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
others for abuse on your behalf. But again - is that a problem? Would you rather have the sentence about suing for copyright violation removed from the CT, would that be better? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Phase 4 and what it means

2011-06-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
and replace it with yours. The map will not be worse for it, and the other mapper can hardly complain. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Phase 4 and what it means

2011-06-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
, there's no reason to prefer the former. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] license for Wiki Loves Monuments

2011-05-15 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Mike Dupont wrote: Funny, based on my last question, the OSM will not be able to use cc-by-sa data in the future. Some say that we aren't able to use CC-BY-SA data now because we cannot provide proper attribution. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Breaking up is hard to do (was New Logo in the Wiki)

2011-05-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
Russ, On 05/06/11 07:25, Russ Nelson wrote: Would you really say that personally, as far as your contributions are concerned, you consider your I agree click to be legally void because it happened under duress? No, I'm saying that *everyone's* agreement is invalid because it was

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Breaking up is hard to do (was New Logo in the Wiki)

2011-05-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
Russ, (I'm trying to move this over to legal-talk because you are expressing an interesting legal viewpoint): On 05/05/11 06:27, Russ Nelson wrote: I'm wondering on what data you come to that conclusion? Because people have clicked ok on the license change and CTs? And yet there is no

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Rights granted to OSMF (Section 2 of the CT)

2011-04-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
Eugene, On 04/17/2011 06:39 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: Some people have problems with section 2 of the proposed CT because of granting of rights to OSMF. [...] Clearly this is not that big a problem for Apache contributors, why should it be a big problem for OSM contributors True.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Rights granted to OSMF (Section 2 of the CT)

2011-04-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 04/17/2011 10:51 AM, Florian Lohoff wrote: But has been a major point of problems in the past. Have a look at the GCC issues. Patches will not be submitted because a transfer of copyright is a no go for some. Firstly, in the CT case we're not talking transfer of copyright. Secondly, I

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Mixing data under different licenses

2011-04-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
being created then it is certainly a derived work. (It isn't a derived work until step 3.3 because OSM data only comes into play in 3.4.) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap License Change Phase 3 begins Sunday

2011-04-15 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, (Thread moved over from talk) On 04/15/2011 05:55 PM, Kai Krueger wrote: In addition, it is imho not clear that not some of the many imports listed as Attribution licensed wouldn't fall into this category, too (rather than in category 3 as CC-BY). To be clear, my category 3 was meant for

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap License Change Phase 3 begins Sunday

2011-04-15 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 04/15/2011 09:16 PM, Francis Davey wrote: In addition, it is imho not clear that not some of the many imports listed as Attribution licensed wouldn't fall into this category, too (rather than in category 3 as CC-BY). I haven't seen this list so cannot comment. Sorry for that. I had

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Questions about CTs 1.2.4

2011-04-14 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 04/14/2011 09:54 AM, Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote: If I'm reading what Francis has written correctly, this would seem to be a very real problem with CT 2.2.4, which would prevent us using almost any source which wasn't PD or for which the contributor didn't own the copyright. In

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Announcement: Add-tags a tool to connect OpenStreetMap Wikipedia

2011-04-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
. (Followup-to legal-talk.) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Compliance timeline

2011-04-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 04/08/2011 10:21 AM, Rob Myers wrote: I think it would make more sense to work with the Creative Commons people on CC-BY-SA version 4, so we can upgrade licences without deleting any data or requiring every contributor to transfer rights to the OSMF. Then everyone could just keep on

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Compliance timeline

2011-04-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 04/08/2011 05:05 PM, Ed Avis wrote: I.e. even if we were planning to switch to CC-BY-SA 4, the Contributor Terms would still make a lot of sense. Well, in that particular case, the automatic forward compatibility of CC-BY-SA would take care of it. I was trying to say that even if we

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Licensing Working Group

2011-03-24 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 03/24/11 09:23, Andrew Harvey wrote: ...and many prospective contributors are being shunned away because a new contributor doesn't have the same privileges as existing contributors. i.e. existing contributors can use non-CT compatible data, but new users cannot. That's a funny

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Someone ought to do something ... dealing with violations of OSM's geodata license

2011-03-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
* license would very likely require a *multiple* of OSMF's whole current budget. Do you want to stand before mappers and tell them for every pound we spend for servers to make mapping a nicer experience, we spend five pounds to seek out and punish license violators? Bye Frederik -- Frederik

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Someone ought to do something ... dealing with violations of OSM's geodata license

2011-03-20 Thread Frederik Ramm
that name and shame should be the utmost we do with violators, and legal steps should neither be threatened nor initiated except in very grave circumstances. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OpenStreetMap copyright credits

2011-02-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 02/16/11 18:56, David Groom wrote: On the wiki under phase 4 of the licencing plan [1] it says Final cut-off. Community Question: What do we do with the people who have declined or not responded? Who is the community in the above context, Anyone who wants to say something. Note that

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] question

2011-02-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Irakli wrote: Hi I’m new user and I have some questions Maybe http://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/2676/can-i-use-osm-in-software-that-is-password-protected answers some of them. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CC-BY-SA / Non-separatable combination of OSM+other

2011-02-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 02/02/11 19:39, Peter Miller wrote: So... you are suggesting that you believe that no one will ever be able to overlay an osm map, or indeed an ccbya image with any image that not available on an open license even if the context of the two images is completely different? Yes, I am not

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CC-BY-SA / Non-separatable combination of OSM+other

2011-02-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 02/02/11 19:47, Jonathan Harley wrote: I think we may have differing interpretations of the intent of the license. Mine is that the license is supposed to allow people to use the map in a variety of ways, online and in print, so long as any new data is open and OSM is attributed; not

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CC-BY-SA / Non-separatable combination of OSM+other

2011-02-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Peter, On 02/02/11 21:02, Peter Miller wrote: I don't believe that a court would see it that way and it is a very unhelpful view for the project to take. The whole attribution-and-share-alike thing is a very unhelpful situation for the project but it doesn't go away simply because it is

[OSM-legal-talk] CC-BY-SA / Non-separatable combination of OSM+other

2011-02-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
calls tomorrow and tell some people that contrary to what I said earlier, they can go ahead with their projects ;) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] LWN article on license change and Creative Commons

2011-01-22 Thread Frederik Ramm
best for a database of facts is best for OSM. I think that the misconception from which CC is now distancing themselves is that data should be licensed CC0, not OSM is a databae of facts. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] How to remove my data since 2006

2011-01-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 01/05/11 09:01, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen wrote: Is there a tool available to remove all my contributed data from osm, safeguard it, and allows me to resubmit once I can agree with the CT and new license ? No. You would probably negatively affect a lot of other

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 01/05/2011 01:17 PM, Ed Avis wrote: If the new path for licence changes is well-thought-out and well-defined, why are we not using it now? I would love to, however if today 2/3 agree to the license change, we still need to get an OK from the remaining 1/3 to continue using their data

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] How to remove my data since 2006

2011-01-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 01/05/2011 02:14 PM, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen Nothing will be removed on 1st April. 1st April only means that you will not be allowed to edit *with your old account* if you haven't agreed to the CT. No edit with my account leads to that I demand my previous data

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
, they should do so. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 01/04/11 16:02, Anthony wrote: But what could we do? Let people remove their data if they don't agree to future licensing terms. No, that is not acceptable to me. Someone who participates in OSM must have the willingness to accept what the majority wants, or else they should not

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 01/04/11 15:17, John Smith wrote: Or better yet, change active contributor to active participant and include things like genuine mailing list posts or wiki edits or ... rather than restricting interested parties to only those who can edit... I think that would be perfectly ok, albeit

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Someone already had a look at theBing TermsofUse?

2010-12-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
Steve, On 12/23/10 01:57, Steve Bennett wrote: That's another area wide open to discussion; my interpretation of I consider my contributions PD has always been: I don't claim any rights in what I contribute. - not: I vouch for nobody holding any rights in what I contribute. (The latter position

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Someone already had a look at theBing TermsofUse?

2010-12-22 Thread Frederik Ramm
, and after that is done, it is then available under CC-BY-SA to all? I guess so - more precisely, available under whatever license OSM uses at that time. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Someone already had a look at theBing TermsofUse?

2010-12-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 12/21/10 11:51, Andrew Harvey wrote: I am having this conversation because I contribute to OSM on the basis that the database will be licensed CC BY-SA and will not be filled with data which conflicts with that license. If tracings from Bing imagery cannot be distributed under this

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Someone already had a look at theBing TermsofUse?

2010-12-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
Phillip, On 12/21/10 16:43, Barnett, Phillip wrote: So people who have not (yet) accepted the CTs can't use Bing? Is that really the case? I think Rob was slightly wrong when he said: We do not have permission from Bing to licence the data differently anywhere else. And contributions to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Someone already had a look at theBing TermsofUse?

2010-12-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
Anthony, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: This rule means that everything that is traced from Bing before OSM stops publishing under CC-BY-SA will be available to the world, forever, under CC-BY-SA. But a hypothetical CC-BY-SA fork would

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Someone already had a look at the Bing Terms of Use?

2010-12-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
FOR YOU, then you're free to do other things. However, as others have pointed out, what we have from Bing now is already *much* more that we ever had from Yahoo in terms of written permission - and I cannot remember you being equally over-cautious about Yahoo. Why? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm

[OSM-legal-talk] License Change - Jakob Altenstein Bachelor Thesis

2010-12-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
Dear LWG, this is just for your information - not a request or action item. There's a cartography student here in Karlsruhe who is doing his bachelor thesis at Geofabrik. From a number of possible topics I offered him, he chose this: Development and implementation of an alogrithm to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Change - Jakob Altenstein Bachelor Thesis

2010-12-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Dear LWG, Oops, mis-sent this - was supposed to go to LWG only and not to list. Anyway, no secrets in there - if anyone has interesting comments, feel free to share them and I'll forward them to Jakob. Bye Frederik ___ legal-talk mailing

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CT clarification: third-party sources

2010-12-14 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 12/14/10 10:28, Jukka Rahkonen wrote: I do not really believe that the turnout percentage in any OSM poll would reach 66.7 percent, even if we count just the active contributors. The turnout percentage in the kind of poll mandated by the CT will be 100%: An 'active contributor' is

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CT clarification: third-party sources

2010-12-14 Thread Frederik Ramm
Francis, On 12/14/10 10:38, Francis Davey wrote: Anyway, this is a governance issue rather than a legal one. As drafted the CT's will require 2/3 of all active contributors, not merely those who vote. As written in another message, I believe that in this case an active contributor is one who

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CT clarification: third-party sources

2010-12-10 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 12/10/10 03:09, Simon Ward wrote: We are expected to give OSMF broad rights and trust them to do what’s good, yet if a contributor should attempt to assert their rights it is deemed unjust, unfair to the community, or whatever other daemonising you can think of. The balance is wrong,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CT clarification: third-party sources

2010-12-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
Commons deem suitable. So either your simple definition of share-alike is correct and everyone in real life is doing it wrong. Or maybe it is too simple. Which was precisely the point I was trying to make. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CT clarification: third-party sources

2010-12-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
for another time, what happens if you import data from a share-alike source today but in 5 years the data source goes PD. Will the data you have imported now have to be deleted and re-imported to take advantage of the greater flexibility, or can it just be switched? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CT clarification: third-party sources

2010-12-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
on the contributor's side. Where I see the problems with this approach is on the OSMF side. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Unsetting CT flag

2010-12-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 12/07/10 09:24, ke...@cordina.org.uk wrote: However, I believe the license is different. Contributors give OSMF a licence to use their data in a particular way. That licence is to their personal rights. I think it is wrong that this licence can be changed in the future without the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Unsetting CT flag

2010-12-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
80n, On 12/07/10 10:08, 80n wrote: So, the const-ness you're looking for is in fact there - just not on the level on which you are lookign for it. Not at all. A 2/3rds majority of *active* contributors can change the license under which everyone elses content is published. Yes. But

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Unsetting CT flag

2010-12-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
Simon, Simon Ward wrote: On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 07:58:26PM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote: ODbL is not a PD license, so you do not have to be afraid. The Contributor Terms effectively change the licence. My statement above arose from a discussion in which pec...@gmail.com wrote: I know

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Someone already had a look at the Bing Terms of Use?

2010-12-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
Andrew, Manuel - On 12/06/2010 10:28 AM, Andrew Harvey wrote: I feel that it is not safe at this point. I have raised my concerns in this thread http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2010-December/005299.html The situation is sufficient for me to use Bing imagery for tracing.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CT, section 3

2010-11-26 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 11/26/10 13:13, Olaf Schmidt-Wischhöfer wrote: I am sure that each part of the thought experiment is allowed under the current CT rules. Or do you see something that violates the CT? Your thought experiment was built on OSMF *changing* the CT. Now changing the CT doesn't violate the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CT, section 3

2010-11-26 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 11/26/10 15:24, Olaf Schmidt-Wischhöfer wrote: My thought experiment was based on being locked out of the server, being unable to contribute, and thereby loosing the right to vote. I agree that the CT currently seem to have no provision to make sure that someone who *wants* to be an

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CT, section 3

2010-11-26 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 11/26/10 16:24, Mike Dupont wrote: Do you *really* think it is right to say: What's mine is mine, and if those 100 people in 10 years make any step that I don't like then I will withdraw my work from under them? please stop at this point. We are not talking about withdrawing anything

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CT, section 3

2010-11-26 Thread Frederik Ramm
Anthony, you seem to be missing context. I have re-added the quote from Mike to which I replied: On 11/26/10 16:53, Anthony wrote: If you have a license, then make it closed, dont leave any loopholes or blank check rules in there that involve trusting some unknown set of people that can

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] JOSM and spam

2010-11-24 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 11/24/2010 10:57 AM, Erik Johansson wrote: It would be great if someone could convince the JOSM people to remove the ODbL blurb in JOSM, people get scared and spam everyone who hasn't agreed to the new license. I do not appreciate getting lots of ODbL FUD spam, Are you sure this has

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] JOSM and spam

2010-11-24 Thread Frederik Ramm
with emails. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] yakaz.com Partial Map data CC-BY-SA OpenStreetMap contributors

2010-11-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
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Re: [OSM-legal-talk] openstreetmap in some flash advertising

2010-11-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
OSM mentioned in that context. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] proprietary data formats and ODbL

2010-11-20 Thread Frederik Ramm
any changes to it. The boundary between just a difficult file format and encryption is probably rather grey. The'd surely be on the safe side if they distributed the contents of that file on a parallel channel in an easily readable form. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Best license for future tiles?

2010-11-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
Anthony, On 11/19/10 14:38, Anthony wrote: If the latter, then no, it doesn't, in itself, allow you to make a produced work, because a produced work is made from a substantial extract of data. You know what? After the license change I'll make a few produced works that way and see if OSMF sue

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