Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Progressing OSM to a new data Licence regime

2008-02-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ian Haylock wrote: > Surely if a person releases something under PD, he/she is giving up > all rights to that information, be it software, data, etc. > So what's to stop OSM doing what they want with the data. > > For instance if the whole of the OSM database was public domain. A > private c

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Progressing OSM to a new data Licence regime

2008-02-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, > > This sounds like a nightmare: I could lose weeks of work because > > someone who fails to reply played with Potlatch once for a few > > minutes and then vanished. > > You have a better idea? :-) Well if push comes to shove then in order to have a say about an element in our database,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Progressing OSM to a new data Licence regime

2008-02-04 Thread SteveC
On 4 Feb 2008, at 13:46, David Earl wrote: >>> how do we avoid the situation where e.g. someone who disagrees the >>> new license has run a bot over all of Cambridge to tweak things >>> (as has indeed >>> happened to many of the ways) or who has 'tidied up' bits of my >>> mapping so all my s

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Progressing OSM to a new data Licence regime

2008-02-04 Thread SteveC
On 4 Feb 2008, at 13:24, David Earl wrote: > On 04/02/2008 10:41, SteveC wrote: >> • Stage 4 - Remove all data from those who do not respond or >> respond negatively (the hard bit) > > Steve, First, as the email said twice, please don't cc talk. > how do we avoid the situation where e.g