Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-03-04 Thread Olov McKie
Hello All! Forgive me for the previous unfinished version of this mail, here is the complete version. Again thank you for all your feedback. Unfortunately after the feedback that I have gotten so far on my initial 4 use-cases, and the 4 extra sub-use-cases I added later, I still do not know f

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-03-04 Thread Olov McKie
Hello All! I again find that I have to apologize for my bad email skills, my previous message to this list was not complete when I accidentally managed to send it :( The save draft, and send buttons are to close to one and other. Please forgive me for the unfinished mail, I will send a complete

[OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-03-04 Thread Olov McKie
Hello All! Again thank you for all your feedback. Unfortunately after the feedback that I have gotten so far on my initial 4 use-cases, and the 4 extra sub-use-cases I added later, I still do not know for sure if the use-cases I presented would trigger the ODbL share alike clause or not. My con

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-03-04 Thread Simon Poole
Am 04.03.2013 13:39, schrieb Jonathan Harley: > On 04/03/13 11:53, Pieren wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Jonathan Harley >> wrote: >> >>> Personally, I think this does leave a loophole where you could reverse >>> engineer OSM's data from imagery, but as I said at the time, I'm not >>>

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-03-04 Thread Tadeusz Knapik
Hello, > Am 04.03.2013 11:29, schrieb Tadeusz Knapik: >> How come? ODbL doesn't enforce PW's license - if Produced Work is >> licenced Public Domain, how do you reach somebody who used this PD >> Produced Work to credit OSM? >> Sincerely, >> > This is patently wrong, see ODbL 1.0 paragraph 4.3 > (

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-03-04 Thread Jonathan Harley
On 04/03/13 11:53, Pieren wrote: On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Jonathan Harley wrote: Personally, I think this does leave a loophole where you could reverse engineer OSM's data from imagery, but as I said at the time, I'm not worried about it because so much accuracy would be lost. In any c

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-03-04 Thread Simon Poole
Am 04.03.2013 11:29, schrieb Tadeusz Knapik: > How come? ODbL doesn't enforce PW's license - if Produced Work is > licenced Public Domain, how do you reach somebody who used this PD > Produced Work to credit OSM? > Sincerely, > This is patently wrong, see ODbL 1.0 paragraph 4.3 (http://opendatacom

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-03-04 Thread Tadeusz Knapik
Hello, >> Personally, I think this does leave a loophole where you could reverse >> engineer OSM's data from imagery, but as I said at the time, I'm not worried >> about it because so much accuracy would be lost. In any case, > Technically, it is possible to export in a format where accuracy is >

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-03-04 Thread Erik Johansson
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Jonathan Harley wrote: > On 02/03/13 16:17, Erik Johansson wrote: >> >> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Jonathan Harley >> wrote: >>> >>> So - *must* you make your database of user-sourced geodata available to >>> the >>> OSM community? I answer no, so long as it

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-03-04 Thread Pieren
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Jonathan Harley wrote: > Personally, I think this does leave a loophole where you could reverse > engineer OSM's data from imagery, but as I said at the time, I'm not worried > about it because so much accuracy would be lost. In any case, Technically, it is possi

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-03-04 Thread Tadeusz Knapik
Hello, 2013/3/1 Jonathan Harley : > Produced Works don't have to be licensed under ODbL - they don't have to > have any specific license - so if you use map tiles whose license doesn't > require any derived data to be shared back to OSM, you are fine to collect > data and keep it to yourself - as

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-03-04 Thread Jonathan Harley
On 02/03/13 16:17, Erik Johansson wrote: On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Jonathan Harley wrote: So - *must* you make your database of user-sourced geodata available to the OSM community? I answer no, so long as it resulted from a produced work and This feel very iffy, I thought this had been

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-03-02 Thread Erik Johansson
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Jonathan Harley wrote: > So - *must* you make your database of user-sourced geodata available to the > OSM community? I answer no, so long as it resulted from a produced work and This feel very iffy, I thought this had been disproven already, I might be wrong, but

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-03-01 Thread Olov McKie
>Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:48:41 + >From: Rob Myers >On Fri, 1 Mar 2013 16:53:44 +0100 (CET), Olov McKie wrote: >> >> As I understand our license change, it can be described as this: >> (Please correct me if I am wrong) All objects that had an edit >> history >> where someone not willing to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-03-01 Thread Alex Barth
Rob, I could only follow your line of argument if OSM was a project that is trying to compete in the same market as a potential commercial player that is marketing an OSM + proprietary data mix. As OSM isn't, it has a bigger benefit from allowing liberal use. On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Rob

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-03-01 Thread Paul Norman
. From: Alex Barth [mailto:a...@mapbox.com] Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 7:37 AM To: Licensing and other legal discussions. Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-03-01 Thread Rob Myers
On Fri, 1 Mar 2013 11:51:18 -0500, Alex Barth wrote: On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Rob Myers wrote: despite the economic irrationality of this It _is_ economically rational to contribute to OSM even if there wasn't a share alike license. It's economically rational to keep costs down unt

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-03-01 Thread Alex Barth
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Rob Myers wrote: > despite the economic irrationality of this It _is_ economically rational to contribute to OSM even if there wasn't a share alike license. This is the point of the matter and where we miss each other. It's economically more than rational to c

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-03-01 Thread Rob Myers
On Fri, 1 Mar 2013 16:53:44 +0100 (CET), Olov McKie wrote: As I understand our license change, it can be described as this: (Please correct me if I am wrong) All objects that had an edit history where someone not willing to change the license (decliner) had edited anything was reverted back in

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-03-01 Thread Rob Myers
On Fri, 1 Mar 2013 10:36:48 -0500, Alex Barth wrote: On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Paul Norman wrote: The fact that you can’t mix OSM + proprietary data and then distribute it as some kind of “OSM but better” without releasing the proprietary data is a feature of share-alike licenses, not

[OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-03-01 Thread Olov McKie
Hello All! Again thank you all for your feedback! I am currently spending a lot of time thinking about the license and what can be considered copying, derived works etc. I just realized that there is one recent event that sets an unprecedented precedence in how to look upon these questions, it

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-03-01 Thread Alex Barth
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Paul Norman wrote: > The fact that you can’t mix OSM + proprietary data and then distribute it > as some kind of “OSM but better” without releasing the proprietary data is > a feature of share-alike licenses, not a bug. > Not every feature is a good feature, just

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-03-01 Thread Jonathan Harley
On 28/02/13 14:58, Olov McKie wrote: Hello All! Hi Olov, I'll give this a go. My answers are a long way down because I think cases 1-3 are all essentially the same: First off, thank you for the feedback I have gotten so far! I had an idea about what answers I would get on my questions, bu

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-28 Thread Paul Norman
legal discussions. Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: I think that the OSM community is already very open towards commercial use; This is bigger than just commercial use. The ODbL is an obstacle to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-28 Thread Alex Barth
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > I think that the OSM community is already very open towards commercial use; This is bigger than just commercial use. The ODbL is an obstacle to contribute to OSM for anyone - business or not - who is bound by the constraints of using third

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-28 Thread Svavar Kjarrval
It would prohibit me from using the CC0 license if I use any data with a ODbL license to create a derived database. - Svavar Kjarrval On 28/02/13 23:49, Rob Myers wrote: > On 28/02/13 23:45, Tobias Knerr wrote: >> >> It also _forces_ you to prohibit stuff, by requiring ODbL for derivative >> data

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-28 Thread Rob Myers
On 28/02/13 23:45, Tobias Knerr wrote: It also _forces_ you to prohibit stuff, by requiring ODbL for derivative databases. That doesn't prohibit anything. You can make derivative databases. You just can't prohibit people from using them freely. - Rob. __

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-28 Thread Rob Myers
On 27/02/13 21:19, Rob wrote: Rather than share-alike I would like to share-what-I-like but that is not an option. And I'd like you to make me a sandwich. - Rob. ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.or

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-28 Thread Rob Myers
On 27/02/13 20:24, Marc Regan wrote: I'm also going to add we should do away with share alike in the mid term. It's just complicated and hurting OSM. Case in point: example at hand. +1. If you want to do anything with OSM data besides make map tiles, the cloud of uncertainty around what you can

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-28 Thread Tobias Knerr
On 28.02.2013 01:17, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Just to make this one point clear: > > What you *can* do with the data is pretty clear and pretty easy. This is not really true. At the core of the ODbL is the idea that "produced works" and "derivative databases" should be treated differently, and that

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-28 Thread Rob Myers
On 28/02/13 00:17, Frederik Ramm wrote: As I said in my opening paragraph, the share-alike license never prohibits you from doing something with the data; it just prohibits you from prohibiting stuff! <3 - Rob. ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-ta

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-28 Thread Alex Barth
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Jake Wasserman wrote: > 'It makes no difference whether you store the data sets separately, or > together in the same "database" software, whether that is a RDBMS, NOSQL, > filesystem or anything else. So long as the other data isn't derived from > OSM, the result

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-28 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Olov McKie wrote: > 1. If we present an OSM map to the user let them click on the map and use > the coordinates they clicked on as part of the meta-data for a place in our > application, will the resulting database be considered a derived database? > To clarify,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-28 Thread Olov McKie
Hello All! First off, thank you for the feedback I have gotten so far! I had an idea about what answers I would get on my questions, but some of your answers were not what I expected, so let me reason a bit about each case and I would love your feedback on my reasoning. Please also look on case

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-28 Thread Jonathan Harley
On 28/02/13 08:04, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: On 02/28/2013 05:54 AM, Jake Wasserman wrote: I'm a little confused. The way I interpret your comment, merely storing ODbL and non-ODbL data in the same database triggers share alike. But on the use cases wiki page (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-28 Thread Simon Poole
It would appear that any and all data associated with a > >> website or mobile app becomes fair game once OSM > >> data is used. > > > > What? No. No, that isn't true. I'm no fan of share-alike but > that is > >

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-28 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
On 02/28/2013 05:54 AM, Jake Wasserman wrote: > I'm a little confused. The way I interpret your comment, merely > storing ODbL and non-ODbL data in the same database triggers share > alike. But on the use cases wiki page > (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/License/Use_Cases), Case 4 says: > 'It

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-27 Thread Jake Wasserman
rote: >> >> > WhereAmI wrote: >> >> It would appear that any and all data associated with a >> >> website or mobile app becomes fair game once OSM >> >> data is used. >> > >> > What? No. No, that isn't true. I'm no fan

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-27 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 27.02.2013 21:24, Marc Regan wrote: +1. If you want to do anything with OSM data besides make map tiles, the cloud of uncertainty around what you can and can't do with the data is pretty terrifying. Just to make this one point clear: What you *can* do with the data is pretty clear and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-27 Thread Alex Barth
hurst > wrote: > > > WhereAmI wrote: > >> It would appear that any and all data associated with a > >> website or mobile app becomes fair game once OSM > >> data is used. > > > > What? No. No, that isn't true. I'm no fan of share-alike but t

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-27 Thread Rob
trivially disprovable. > > Richard > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/OSM-legal-talk-License-question-user-clicking-on-map-tp5750253p5751314.html > Sent from the Legal Talk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > &g

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
ontext: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/OSM-legal-talk-License-question-user-clicking-on-map-tp5750253p5751314.html Sent from the Legal Talk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstr

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-27 Thread Mikel Maron
ons. >Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 4:19 PM >Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map > > >+1 +1 +1 > > >Would love to use OSM data to create a tile server for a project I have in the >works but the share-alike clause has stopped me from movi

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-27 Thread Marc Regan
> I'm also going to add we should do away with share alike in the mid term. > It's just complicated and hurting OSM. Case in point: example at hand. +1. If you want to do anything with OSM data besides make map tiles, the cloud of uncertainty around what you can and can't do with the data is p

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-27 Thread Alex Barth
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Kate Chapman wrote: > My > understanding is you are saying "I would like it to be this way," but > at the moment it is not. Correct? > Actually to be more specific: I'm saying "I would like geocoding-like use cases to be clarified, at the moment it is not clear.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-27 Thread Alex Barth
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Kate Chapman wrote: > My > understanding is you are saying "I would like it to be this way," but > at the moment it is not. Correct? > Correct. ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.open

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-24 Thread Erik Johansson
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Olov McKie wrote: > Hej Erik! > > Would you please consider reading my mail one more time, and clarify your > answers, because I do not understand what you are trying to say. > > No where in my mail did I say anything about using Google maps or their API, > yet f

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-22 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi Alex, You might want to clarify because your email is a bit confusing. My understanding is you are saying "I would like it to be this way," but at the moment it is not. Correct? Yes it is important to clarify the share alike clause, but I think also important not to confuse people asking how t

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-22 Thread Olov McKie
Hej Erik! Would you please consider reading my mail one more time, and clarify your answers, because I do not understand what you are trying to say. No where in my mail did I say anything about using Google maps or their API, yet for the two usecases you have answered about are you talking abo

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-22 Thread Erik Johansson
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Olov McKie wrote: > I work for a library where we are building a new version of an application to > handle all sort of collections, for example books, letters, images, music > sheets, etc. The application will store metadata and digitalized versions of > the wo

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-21 Thread Alex Barth
I think all of these use cases should be ok and we should adjust the community guide lines to clarify that ODbL's share alike clause shouldn't kick in here. On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Olov McKie wrote: > Hello all! > > I have a few usecases for OSM where I do not know if I can use it or n

[OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-21 Thread Olov McKie
Hello all! I have a few usecases for OSM where I do not know if I can use it or not. I work for a library where we are building a new version of an application to handle all sort of collections, for example books, letters, images, music sheets, etc. The application will store metadata and digit

[OSM-legal-talk] License question: odbl use case

2012-07-24 Thread Juergen Kurzmann
Hi, with your help, I'll try to answer my own question posted (in full length) here: http://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/14449/license-question-odbl-use-case I'd first like to mention that my customers, by now, are actively contributing to OSM and we absolutely want to stick to this spirit (n

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Question

2010-10-20 Thread Sam Larsen
> > Many thanks for your comments Sam. > > Unfortunately, unless we allow the current developers to use the data > without restriction then they will never support an open database. I think > the solution is to host the database on sourceforge with an PDDL license and > then automatically up

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Question

2010-10-20 Thread Kevin Sharpe
Many thanks for your comments Sam. Unfortunately, unless we allow the current developers to use the data without restriction then they will never support an open database. I think the solution is to host the database on sourceforge with an PDDL license and then automatically upload the data to OSM

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Question

2010-10-20 Thread Sam Larsen
> >Do you [Kevin] want your data to be usable without restriction, or are you > trying to restrict it? > We want the data to be available without restriction. > > >Do you want to be able to extract data from OSM and combine it with your > data? > Possibly... Let me give you some examples;

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Question

2010-10-19 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Kevin Sharpe wrote: >>Do you [Kevin] want your data to be usable without restriction, or are you > trying to restrict it? > We want the data to be available without restriction. Okay, I misunderstood you, and I'm going to have to pass on answering this one. Sorry

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Question

2010-10-19 Thread Kevin Sharpe
>Do you [Kevin] want your data to be usable without restriction, or are you trying to restrict it? We want the data to be available without restriction. >Do you want to be able to extract data from OSM and combine it with your data? Possibly... Let me give you some examples; Our data relates to t

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Question

2010-10-19 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:31 PM, andrzej zaborowski wrote: > Yeah, I wouldn't rely on the lack of copyright in what you make > available through OSM.  Rather submit the data to OSM, thus making it > available under CC-By-SA / ODbL only, and at the same time on your > homepage as Public Domain. O

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Question

2010-10-19 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Kevin Sharpe wrote: >>In what jurisdiction? > > People will be adding data worldwide. Basically, I think you have three choices. 1) You consider your data to be valuable enough to hire a lawyer to try to figure out a way to keep people from using it without rest

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Question

2010-10-19 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 19 October 2010 18:27, Kevin Sharpe wrote: >>In what jurisdiction? > > People will be adding data worldwide. > >>yes, anyone can extract and use your data without restriction, regardless > of whether or not it's added to OSM. > > Is this true? If we encourage people to add data direct to OSM th

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Question

2010-10-19 Thread Kevin Sharpe
>In what jurisdiction? People will be adding data worldwide. >yes, anyone can extract and use your data without restriction, regardless of whether or not it's added to OSM. Is this true? If we encourage people to add data direct to OSM then is that data not covered by the OSM license? What happ

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Question

2010-10-19 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Kevin Sharpe wrote: > I posted these questions to the Forum and it was suggested that I try here; > > We wish to add to OSM data relating to electric vehicle charge point > locations and capabilities. However, it is not clear to me whether a third > party could ex