Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A simplification of the agreement on?the?signup page.

2009-03-02 Thread Simon Ward
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 05:05:00AM +, Jukka Rahkonen wrote: > > This needs a safeguard to allow for email addresses temporarily not > > working. I’m not even sure this is the right thing to do anyway. It’s > > far safer getting rid of a user’s data than it is assuming ownership of > > it. >

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A simplification of the agreement on the signup page.

2009-03-02 Thread Rob Myers
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Simon Ward wrote: > On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 11:30:41AM -0500, Russ Nelson wrote: >> Creative Commons license (by-sa). or under the ODbL. If you choose not to >> give us your email address, or your email address stops working, you >> waive all right to ownership of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A simplification of the agreement on the signup page.

2009-03-01 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
Simon Ward writes: > > On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 11:30:41AM -0500, Russ Nelson wrote: > > Creative Commons license (by-sa). or under the ODbL. If you choose not to > > give us your email address, or your email address stops working, you > > waive all right to ownership of your edits. > > This n

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A simplification of the agreement on the signup page.

2009-03-01 Thread Simon Ward
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 07:22:36PM -0500, Russ Nelson wrote: > Why? If the owner of the data ever shows up, they can 1) agree to any > changes in the license, or 2) ask to have their data removed. I don't > see much value in removing the data now on the chance that we might have > to remove

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A simplification of the agreement on the signup page.

2009-03-01 Thread Russ Nelson
I see your point. Data potentially infringing if removed now could be recreated now, making later bookkeeping easier. On Mar 1, 2009, at 7:33 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Russ Nelson wrote: I don't see much value in removing the data now on the chance that we might have to remove it late

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A simplification of the agreement on the signup page.

2009-03-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Russ Nelson wrote: > I don't see much value in removing the data now on the chance that we might > have > to remove it later. Viral licenses are called viral for a reason. If you have to remove something it is always good to do so before it has infected a lot of other things. Or more pra

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A simplification of the agreement on the signup page.

2009-03-01 Thread Russ Nelson
On Mar 1, 2009, at 6:37 PM, Simon Ward wrote: On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 11:30:41AM -0500, Russ Nelson wrote: Creative Commons license (by-sa). or under the ODbL. If you choose not to give us your email address, or your email address stops working, you waive all right to ownership of your edits

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A simplification of the agreement on the signup page.

2009-03-01 Thread Russ Nelson
On Mar 1, 2009, at 12:46 PM, Philipp Klaus Krause wrote: Russ Nelson schrieb: [...], or your email address stops working, you waive all right to ownership of your edits. Probably about as legally binding as posting a note on the site that says "By reading this you agree to sacrifice your fir

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A simplification of the agreement on the signup page.

2009-03-01 Thread Simon Ward
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 11:30:41AM -0500, Russ Nelson wrote: > Creative Commons license (by-sa). or under the ODbL. If you choose not to > give us your email address, or your email address stops working, you > waive all right to ownership of your edits. This needs a safeguard to allow for email