Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New license status

2009-09-28 Thread Gustav Foseid
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Jukka Rahkonen jukka.rahko...@mmmtike.fiwrote: Will all contents of OSM year 2009 database be in public domain first of January, 2025? The database directive gives 15 years of protection for a dump of a database. As long as the database is updated, the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] wikitude content

2009-08-25 Thread Gustav Foseid
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.netwrote: It isn't legal, because the locations are derived from Google Maps. This is basically a mashup based on Google Maps. I was unaware that Google have claimed any rights over POIs added in such mashups (Google My Maps

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] wikitude content

2009-08-25 Thread Gustav Foseid
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Joel joelheeth...@gmail.com wrote: They do hold the rights to the location of the POIs when based on Google maps. I have tried to find something in their terms that verifies this, but have not found anything. Could you please be a bit more specific? Even if

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] compatibility with CC licenses

2009-03-02 Thread Gustav Foseid
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.comwrote: There has been some discussion of adding a tag into the planet.osm header detailing that the data is licensed. Also adding some contract text on http://planet.openstreetmap.org/ to cover our non-eu-database-right

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] compatibility with CC licenses

2009-03-02 Thread Gustav Foseid
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Quoting 4.2 (b) [You must] Include a copy of this Licence [...] or its Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) [...] both in the Database [...] and in any relevant documentation Sorry, overlooked that. If this is in the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: incompatibility issues

2009-03-01 Thread Gustav Foseid
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Not so, it turns out; the Produced Work freedom allows us to combine OSM data *only* with other data whose license does not prohibit the addition of constraints, because ODbL mandates that we add the reverse engineering

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: Who is the licensor / whose database is it?

2008-12-11 Thread Gustav Foseid
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Iván Sánchez Ortega [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Temporary files (or information arranged in memory) in your computer are considered databases, so I'd go with option 1. To be protectec under the database directive, you need to make a significant investment for the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Removal of CC-SA-BY licensed data from OSM after ODbL takes effect

2008-12-10 Thread Gustav Foseid
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Rob Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it be possible for CC to offer a licence transition clause for large scale open geodata projects in the same way the FSF has offered an FDL - BY-SA get out for Wikipedia in the current minor FDL revision? Well... If I

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Removal of CC-SA-BY licensed data from OSM after ODbL takes effect

2008-12-10 Thread Gustav Foseid
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: That would entail arguing that map data is uncopyrightable while at the same time transitioning the OSM map data to a new copyright license. It's not feasible. Database protection can exists even if copyright

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Starting Repository For Public Domain OSM Data

2008-10-21 Thread Gustav Foseid
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Rob Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Wikipedia version is the best current PD Dedication but I really would recommend waiting on CC Zero. CC Zero explicitly mentions database rights, which I think is a good thing, but I would be ahppy with the Wikipedia

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using JOSM + Yahoo Maps Aerial Imageryfor Public Domain Release

2008-10-12 Thread Gustav Foseid
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Peter Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I am very sure it is not allowed. If it was allowed then Ed would have made that clear on any number of occasions recently, notably at SOTM and at FOSS. I have never met Ed, so I will have to do with reading their

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Which data is public domained?

2008-09-04 Thread Gustav Foseid
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Iván Sánchez Ortega [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Nope. Even one single node is subject to copyright... *tracing* (let it be on top of aerial imagery, or on top of GPS traces) is currently considered an intellectual work, so you have IP rights over it. At least in