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 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 planet.osm (or

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

2009-03-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Grant, Grant Slater wrote: > There has been some discussion of adding a tag into the planet.osm > header detailing that the data is licensed. Actually this is exactly what the license suggests: Quoting 4.2 (b) "[You must] Include a copy of this Licence [...] or its Uniform Resource Identifier

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 wrote: > 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 friends. Take a closer

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

2009-03-02 Thread Grant Slater
Gustav Foseid wrote: > > A user in the EU downloads the database (planet.osm in OSM), modifies > it (simplifies ways and merges dual carriageways, for instance) and > puts this derived database (planet-modified.osm) on a FTP server, > along with a readme.txt containing the license, in a zip file

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

2009-03-01 Thread Rob Myers
John Wilbanks wrote: > (although I find the idea that freedom can only come from the > barrel of a license deeply depressing). That's CC Zero out of the running then. > If Big Company decides to run a mechanical turk contest on Amazon to > extract facts from your DB one at a time, do they viol

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

2009-02-28 Thread Simon Ward
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:42:57PM -0500, John Wilbanks wrote: > I am not speaking for CC the organization here - there have been no > conversations to my knowledge about doing a compatibility check between > ODbL and CC licensing. But, I would remind everyone that the current > official CC poli

[OSM-legal-talk] compatibility with CC licenses

2009-02-28 Thread John Wilbanks
I am not speaking for CC the organization here - there have been no conversations to my knowledge about doing a compatibility check between ODbL and CC licensing. But, I would remind everyone that the current official CC policy on CC licenses and databases - indeed, on any legal tools other t