Re: [OSM-talk-be] Mapping party in Lille/Rijsel 31th july

2010-07-19 Thread Philippe Pary
Le lundi 19 juillet 2010 à 18:14 +0200, Marc Coevoet a écrit : Philippe Pary schreef: Hello, A mapping party will happen in Lille/Rijsel on 31th july. It will be about micro-mapping the town zoo (which is free) and try to have the same quality render as Berlin's zoo :-) Les

Re: [OSM-talk-be] Mapping party in Lille/Rijsel 31th july

2010-07-19 Thread Marc Coevoet
Philippe Pary schreef: Hello, A mapping party will happen in Lille/Rijsel on 31th july. It will be about micro-mapping the town zoo (which is free) and try to have the same quality render as Berlin's zoo :-) Les Francais du Nord, sont ils au courant?? Marc -- What's on Shortwave guide:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-19 Thread John Smith
On 19 July 2010 20:07, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: My source for the fact that creativity is not being relied on is the fact that the ODbL doesn't rely on it and the ODbL is the currently proposed replacement licence. It's my understanding that once someone breaches contract with OSM-F

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-19 Thread Emilie Laffray
On 19 July 2010 11:13, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 July 2010 20:07, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: My source for the fact that creativity is not being relied on is the fact that the ODbL doesn't rely on it and the ODbL is the currently proposed replacement

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-19 Thread Rob Myers
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:13:02 +1000, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 July 2010 20:07, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: My source for the fact that creativity is not being relied on is the fact that the ODbL doesn't rely on it and the ODbL is the currently proposed

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-19 Thread John Smith
On 19 July 2010 21:04, Emilie Laffray emilie.laff...@gmail.com wrote: If I follow that analogy, I can then use data from TeleAtlas if someone breaches the contract, which is not the case. The licence is found on their data. Since when does contract law work that way? The difference here is

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-19 Thread John Smith
On 19 July 2010 21:30, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: That said I don't think you'd need to export the data geographically in order to break the contract requirement, just leave a planet dump on the bus. :-/ Which is what I'm curious about, what makes ODBL copyright stick if cc-by-sa

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-19 Thread Rob Myers
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:30:22 +1000, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: The difference here is companies like Teleatlas would sue someone for massive damages if the contract was breached in the first place, which would be OSM-F's only relief, OSM-F won't have a contract with any 3rd

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-19 Thread Rob Myers
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:33:44 +1000, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 July 2010 21:30, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: That said I don't think you'd need to export the data geographically in order to break the contract requirement, just leave a planet dump on the bus. :-/

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-19 Thread Rob Myers
On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:58:25 +1000, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 July 2010 15:18, Gervase Markham gerv-gm...@gerv.net wrote: On 15/07/10 14:34, John Smith wrote: How many governments can change a constitution without less than 50% voting, Of the people? The US and the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-19 Thread SteveC
On Jul 17, 2010, at 3:24 PM, Anthony wrote: On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 3:04 AM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Jul 16, 2010, at 6:11 PM, Rob Myers wrote: Science Commons seem to think copyright doesn't apply to databases no they go much further, they say it shouldn't and that all

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-19 Thread SteveC
On Jul 19, 2010, at 1:30 PM, Rob Myers wrote: On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:13:02 +1000, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 July 2010 20:07, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: My source for the fact that creativity is not being relied on is the fact that the ODbL doesn't rely on it

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-19 Thread Simon Ward
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:45:46AM +0100, Emilie Laffray wrote: Or contract law. It has been pointed out previously that all map providers are using contract law to restrict their data not copyrights. Just because everyone else does it, it doesn't mean OSM should. Simon -- A complex system

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-19 Thread Simon Ward
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:04:55PM +0100, Emilie Laffray wrote: This is the same about anything using contract law. Someone breaking the contract and redistributing it doesn't remove the contract that is given with the data. They are still obliged to follow the contract even if they didn't

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-19 Thread Emilie Laffray
On 19 July 2010 22:07, Simon Ward si...@bleah.co.uk wrote: On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:45:46AM +0100, Emilie Laffray wrote: Or contract law. It has been pointed out previously that all map providers are using contract law to restrict their data not copyrights. Just because everyone else

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-19 Thread Emilie Laffray
On 19 July 2010 22:16, Simon Ward si...@bleah.co.uk wrote: To my knowledge the contract isn’t automatically transferred, although it occurs to me that it could be a condition of the licence that the contract is also adhered to. I’m not sure this is the case. To the best of my knowledge,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-19 Thread Liz
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Simon Ward wrote: To my knowledge the contract isn’t automatically transferred, although it occurs to me that it could be a condition of the licence that the contract is also adhered to. I’m not sure this is the case. A good example is shrink-wrap licences which are

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-19 Thread Simon Ward
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 09:17:43AM +1000, Liz wrote: On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Simon Ward wrote: To my knowledge the contract isn’t automatically transferred, although it occurs to me that it could be a condition of the licence that the contract is also adhered to. I’m not sure this is the case.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-19 Thread Simon Ward
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:58:34PM +0100, Emilie Laffray wrote: My point was to mention that the licence is using contract law as one of the mechanism when no other are present, not to use other map providers as a reference or an example to follow. Why do we need contract law at all? I know

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-19 Thread SteveC
On Jul 20, 2010, at 1:53 AM, Simon Ward wrote: On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:58:34PM +0100, Emilie Laffray wrote: My point was to mention that the licence is using contract law as one of the mechanism when no other are present, not to use other map providers as a reference or an example to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-19 Thread Simon Ward
Apparently lawyers with real law degrees think we do. Here's a crazy idea: maybe they're right? I don’t have the same unconditional love. Simon -- A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.—John Gall signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-19 Thread John Smith
On 20 July 2010 09:21, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: Of course not. But if the data is *already* public domain, then violating a contract and making the data available doesn't take it out of the public domain either. Isn't breach of contract the method that was used to put the tiger data into

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-19 Thread John Smith
On 20 July 2010 10:22, Simon Ward si...@bleah.co.uk wrote: Apparently lawyers with real law degrees think we do. Here's a crazy idea: maybe they're right? I don’t have the same unconditional love. I'm left wondering if this problem is being over engineered by lawyers...

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-19 Thread SteveC
On Jul 20, 2010, at 2:28 AM, John Smith wrote: On 20 July 2010 10:22, Simon Ward si...@bleah.co.uk wrote: Apparently lawyers with real law degrees think we do. Here's a crazy idea: maybe they're right? I don’t have the same unconditional love. I'm left wondering if this problem is

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-19 Thread SteveC
On Jul 20, 2010, at 2:22 AM, Simon Ward wrote: Apparently lawyers with real law degrees think we do. Here's a crazy idea: maybe they're right? I don’t have the same unconditional love. You could pay your own lawyer to check it then? Steve stevecoast.com

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-19 Thread John Smith
On 20 July 2010 10:38, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: I'm left wondering if this problem is being over engineered by lawyers... Go ask on odc-discuss? Is there much point if I'm only likely to get a biased answer? ___ legal-talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-19 Thread Ben Last
On 19 July 2010 13:48, Michael Barabanov michael.baraba...@gmail.comwrote: Would specifying that the new license must be not just open/free but specifically an SA-like license in contributor agreement solve this particular issue? ODBL looks like SA in spirit. Further changing of licenses

Re: [OSM-talk] User Juergenian vandalism

2010-07-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Toby Murray wrote: There are two new changesets today on the northern coast of Russia. Looks like he deleted 7 ways. I have blocked the user temporarily and asked him to explain what he is doing: http://www.openstreetmap.org/blocks/25 Bye Frederik

Re: [OSM-talk] Looking for participants to test OSM-based audio maps

2010-07-19 Thread Peter Körner
Am 18.07.2010 01:23, schrieb Esther Loeliger: For a screenshot and further information, see the project website, http://team.sourceforge.net. Despite a screenshot I don't see any information on this page - not what the project is about nor who's working on. So I don't know what it is

Re: [OSM-talk] Looking for participants to test OSM-based audio maps

2010-07-19 Thread Esther Loeliger
On 19/07/2010 09:28, Peter Körner wrote: Am 18.07.2010 01:23, schrieb Esther Loeliger: For a screenshot and further information, see the project website, http://team.sourceforge.net. Despite a screenshot I don't see any information on this page - not what the project is about nor who's

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-19 Thread TimSC
On 19/07/10 03:07, Nathan Edgars II wrote: SteveC-2 wrote: And I'll try to imagine your parents basement where you toil endlessly on such counts. If this is how the OSMF board conducts themselves, perhaps it's best to give them as little power as possible over the data and its

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-19 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010, you wrote: No... it slithered out from the 7th Circle of Hell, spawned by the Evil LWG and her commander Mike of Norse. The Brethren Thirteen (the Evil Number) hath rendered blah blah blah... Seriously - where do you guys get off with these dark mutterings? The CT's

[OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
Hi again! I still haven't heard from SteveC or others from OSMF official answer wouldn't adding SA clause to section 3 in CT help situation a little - at least it would give contributors a promise that if there another license change is needed, license still will be SA (in a spirit of ODBL). Is

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-19 Thread Rob Myers
On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 06:33:48 +0100, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: On 07/17/2010 04:13 PM, 80n wrote: What's your source for the assertion that we shouldn't rely on creativity? I didn't assert that we *shouldn't*. I know

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread John Smith
On 19 July 2010 20:05, Peteris Krisjanis pec...@gmail.com wrote: Hi again! I still haven't heard from SteveC or others from OSMF official answer wouldn't adding SA clause to section 3 in CT help situation a little - at least it would give contributors a promise that if there another license

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discu ssion more inclusive?

2010-07-19 Thread Ed Avis
SteveC steve at asklater.com writes: My take on the idea of having a vote on whether we'd theoretically move to the ODbL so long as everyone else does... The consequences part: Because nothing will really happen either way if the majority of this proposed step vote yes or no, that means that the

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM-to-PostGIS issues

2010-07-19 Thread Juan Lucas Domínguez Rubio
Yes, sorry, here is the command and error message: http://www.prodevelop.es/files/fm/public/downloads/wxp_console.png   Regards, Juan Lucas --- On Mon, 7/19/10, Graham Jones grahamjones...@googlemail.com wrote: From: Graham Jones grahamjones...@googlemail.com Subject: Re: [OSM-talk]

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-19 Thread Chris Fleming
On 17/07/10 10:00, 80n wrote: On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Chris Fleming m...@chrisfleming.org mailto:m...@chrisfleming.org wrote: Although the intent of ODBl is to provide the protections we thought we were getting with CC-BY-SA; if we were to go to something *completely*

[OSM-talk] Why are some companies in favour of PD? (was: ...licences discussion more inclusive)

2010-07-19 Thread Ed Avis
SteveC steve at asklater.com writes: The companies I talk to today come down in to two camps on PD. The first basically lick their lips and want us to go PD so they don't have to contribute anything (in effect make their business easier) Hang on a minute. Weren't we all told that the current

Re: [OSM-talk] Why are some companies in favour of PD? (was: ...licences discussion more inclusive)

2010-07-19 Thread John Smith
On 19 July 2010 22:02, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: they can get away with) think twice before appropriating OSM data, what is the evidence for the claim that the current licence is broken? I think SteveC mentioned Nike, but how's that different from someone in breach of GPL, didn't anyone

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-19 Thread 80n
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 6:29 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Jul 17, 2010, at 12:06 PM, 80n wrote: In other words, we were wrong, we chose the wrong license out of ignorance. Shit happens. Yeah, shit happens, OSM becomes outrageously successful and nobody abuses the spirit of

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: I still haven't heard from SteveC or others from OSMF official answer wouldn't adding SA clause to section 3 in CT help situation a little - at least it would give contributors a promise that if there another license change is needed, license still will be SA (in a

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread John Smith
On 19 July 2010 23:19, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: And honestly, if at any future time two thirds of active OSM contributors want to change to a non-SA license, why should we keep them from it? In one or two years, two thirds of active contributors will be a greater number of

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
John, John Smith wrote: I wonder if you realise the fine line you are walking here by employing such hard line tactics, I am not employing hard line tactics, I am simply suggesting to go ahead with what is on the table now. you are literally risking an out right rejection of ODBL because

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
2010/7/19 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: Hi, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: I still haven't heard from SteveC or others from OSMF official answer wouldn't adding SA clause to section 3 in CT help situation a little - at least it would give contributors a promise that if there another license

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
2010/7/19 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: John, John Smith wrote: I wonder if you realise the fine line you are walking here by employing such hard line tactics, I am not employing hard line tactics, I am simply suggesting to go ahead with what is on the table now. you are literally

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-19 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:30:22 +1000, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: The difference here is companies like Teleatlas would sue someone for massive damages if the contract was breached in the first place, which

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread John Smith
On 19 July 2010 23:38, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: I am not employing hard line tactics, I am simply suggesting to go ahead with what is on the table now. Which many people cannot legally agree to, even if we do agree with the ODBL. It seems to be a mad dash to force people down

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-19 Thread John Smith
On 19 July 2010 23:43, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: Then I don't see what's wrong with CC-BY-SA. There is no proof there is anything wrong with it, just conjecture and speculation it might not be good enough. ___ legal-talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peteris Krisjanis wrote: Is there any actual mapper who strictly don't like SA? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Users_whose_contributions_are_in_the_public_domain (I reply merely to inform rather than to prolong the debate, as sticking my head into a grinder is already seeming like

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: That would indicate that PD lovin, SA hatin guys will try to stuffin committee method to push OSM in right direction? :) The Contributor Terms have been carefully crafted to make sure that anyone who wants to push OSM in what they perceive is the right direction

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-19 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote: It seems to me that Steve's post is not just a harmless rant, but contains an implication, whether purposeful or not, that some mappers, namely stay-at-home sons (and daughters?), are less equal than others. Perhaps

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Stephen Hope
On 19 July 2010 23:19, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: And honestly, if at any future time two thirds of active OSM contributors want to change to a non-SA license, why should we keep them from it? In one or two years, two thirds of active contributors will be a greater number of

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Andy Allan
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Peteris Krisjanis pec...@gmail.com wrote: Hi again! I still haven't heard from SteveC or others from OSMF official answer wouldn't adding SA clause to section 3 in CT help situation a little - at least it would give contributors a promise that if there

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-19 Thread Ian Dees
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.comwrote: It seems to me that Steve's post is not just a harmless rant, but contains an implication, whether purposeful or not, that some mappers, namely

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
2010/7/19 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: .. Ok, Frederik, I understand (but don't accept) your arguments here, but to push discussion in more practical way: what to do with data providers like Nearmap? How to convince them? Does OSMF have clear plans to convince such data providers

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
2010/7/19 Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com: On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Peteris Krisjanis pec...@gmail.com wrote: Hi again! I still haven't heard from SteveC or others from OSMF official answer wouldn't adding SA clause to section 3 in CT help situation a little - at least it would

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-19 Thread SteveC
Where is all this bitterness and anger coming from 80n? You took everything I said and twisted it 180 degrees. Gun to your head? I'm not even on the LWG. Quashing discussion? All I said is maybe we could be nicer to people in the LWG. There are a hundred ways you could contribute meaningfully

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread John Smith
On 20 July 2010 00:26, Peteris Krisjanis pec...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, Frederik, I understand (but don't accept) your arguments here, but to push discussion in more practical way: what to do with data providers like Nearmap? How to convince them? You also have both the Australian and New Zealand

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM-to-PostGIS issues

2010-07-19 Thread Brian Quinion
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Juan Lucas Domínguez Rubio juan_lucas...@yahoo.com wrote: Yes, sorry, here is the command and error message: http://www.prodevelop.es/files/fm/public/downloads/wxp_console.png Slim uses 800MB of ram as a cache by default (change with -C) Postgresql is

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-19 Thread John Smith
On 20 July 2010 00:41, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Gun to your head? It certainly feels like it from my point of view... All I said is maybe we could be nicer to people in the LWG. There is definitely communications problems here, not to mention conflicting agendas at work, you can't

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM-to-PostGIS issues

2010-07-19 Thread Peter Körner
Am 19.07.2010 12:33, schrieb Juan Lucas Domínguez Rubio: Hello, list: I've tried to export a 9.5 GB (150 GB uncomp.) planet to a PostGIS DB @ localhost on a Windows XP machine (1.5 GB RAM). That's very low memory. WinXP takes at least 523 MB so only 1 GB is avail. for the planet import. In

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread John Smith
On 19 July 2010 23:19, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: want to change to a non-SA license, why should we keep them from it? In one or two years, two thirds of active contributors will be a greater number of people than all of us today. Who are we to tell them what to do? We're the

[OSM-talk] Announcing the Open Brewpub Map

2010-07-19 Thread Sven Geggus
Hi there, one of the big advantages of OSM is IMO the open tagging scheme. Thus I thought why not start a trivial project called Open Brewpub Map. This is in fact a connection of two of my hobbies (brewing and mapping) in some way :) As my experience in the OSM project shows people are mapping

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM-to-PostGIS issues

2010-07-19 Thread Juan Lucas Domínguez Rubio
Hello, Are you taking into account Windows XP's virtual memory (4 GB, I think)? I meant 1.5 GB of physical memory. Regards Juan Lucas --- On Mon, 7/19/10, Brian Quinion openstreet...@brian.quinion.co.uk wrote: From: Brian Quinion openstreet...@brian.quinion.co.uk Subject: Re: [OSM-talk]

Re: [OSM-talk] OSM-to-PostGIS issues

2010-07-19 Thread Gerald A
Hi Juan, On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Juan Lucas Domínguez Rubio juan_lucas...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, Are you taking into account Windows XP's virtual memory (4 GB, I think)? I meant 1.5 GB of physical memory. I'm pretty sure they were talking about physical memory. Using virtual

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Elena of Valhalla
On 7/19/10, Peteris Krisjanis pec...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Is there any actual mapper who strictly don't like SA? So far I have only heard it from business people. I do. I used be in the SA camp, until I realized that SA is probably hurting people who are doing creative stuff and would like

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-19 Thread 80n
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:41 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Where is all this bitterness and anger coming from 80n? You took everything I said and twisted it 180 degrees. So, really, you agree with me, but I've just twisted it so that it appears that you disagree with me? ;) If I've

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-19 Thread SteveC
On Jul 19, 2010, at 3:53 PM, Anthony wrote: On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Nathan Edgars II nerou...@gmail.com wrote: It seems to me that Steve's post is not just a harmless rant, but contains an implication, whether purposeful or not, that some mappers, namely stay-at-home sons (and

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread SteveC
On Jul 19, 2010, at 3:34 PM, John Smith wrote: On 19 July 2010 23:19, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: And honestly, if at any future time two thirds of active OSM contributors want to change to a non-SA license, why should we keep them from it? In one or two years, two thirds of

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
2010/7/19 SteveC st...@asklater.com: On Jul 19, 2010, at 3:34 PM, John Smith wrote: On 19 July 2010 23:19, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: And honestly, if at any future time two thirds of active OSM contributors want to change to a non-SA license, why should we keep them from it?

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread 80n
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 7:05 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Jul 19, 2010, at 3:34 PM, John Smith wrote: On 19 July 2010 23:19, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: And honestly, if at any future time two thirds of active OSM contributors want to change to a non-SA license,

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread SteveC
Come on that wasn't a flame - now any reasonable point is a flame? Can you restate the question as I don't have mail archives etc here (on my phone) Steve stevecoast.com On Jul 19, 2010, at 8:30 PM, Peteris Krisjanis pec...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/7/19 SteveC st...@asklater.com: On Jul 19,

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread SteveC
We did have a vote, remember? You just disagree with the outcome an the remit the OSMF has. Steve stevecoast.com On Jul 19, 2010, at 8:31 PM, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 7:05 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Jul 19, 2010, at 3:34 PM, John Smith wrote: On

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
2010/7/19 SteveC st...@asklater.com: Can you restate the question as I don't have mail archives etc here (on my phone) Ok, there it goes: I suggest to add SA clause and Attribution clause as requirement for any new open and free license in CT point 3. It would help to ease problems with big

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010, SteveC wrote: We did have a vote, remember? You just disagree with the outcome an the remit the OSMF has. Your mentioned vote didn't have /any/ statistical relevance, not even a vote under the top contributors. But actually in The Netherlands we did :) With again

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Graham Jones
It is true that we had a vote, but I am becoming less convinced that we voted the right way. I voted in favour of the change on the basis that at the superficial level the existing and proposed licences seemed so similar that I could not see what the problem was - ODBL looked so much like

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: Ok, there it goes: I suggest to add SA clause and Attribution clause as requirement for any new open and free license in CT point 3. It would help to ease problems with big data contributors which could agree with ODBL (as it still have SA and Attribution), but are

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-19 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:58 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Jul 17, 2010, at 3:24 PM, Anthony wrote: On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 3:04 AM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Jul 16, 2010, at 6:11 PM, Rob Myers wrote: Science Commons seem to think copyright doesn't apply to databases

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Graham Jones grahamjones...@googlemail.com wrote: It is true that we had a vote, but I am becoming less convinced that we voted the right way. I voted in favour of the change on the basis that at the superficial level the existing and proposed licences

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 19 July 2010 22:06, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: 4. Is their contribution so important to OSM that OSM will let them decide what licenses are acceptable for us? It's similar to the compiler warnings, sometimes you don't want to change your code just because the compiler can't

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Michael Barabanov
Frederik (and Steve, and LWG), Rather than receiving questions back, some actual answers to direct questions about adding SA-like requirement to CT would be nice. Regarding the questions: taking NearMap as an example (copied from another thread, see there for more details): On Mon, Jul 19, 2010

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Simon Ward
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 08:05:58PM +0200, SteveC wrote: wonder if you realise the fine line you are walking here by employing such hard line tactics, you are literally risking an out right rejection of ODBL because of this. How much time and effort will have been in vein exactly? I think

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Ulf Möller
Am 19.07.2010 22:31, schrieb Anthony: IIRC, the contributor terms changed significantly *after* the vote took place. http://www.osmfoundation.org/index.php?title=License/Contributor_Termsdiff=326oldid=204 ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Simon Ward
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 09:55:42PM +0300, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: Ok, there it goes: I suggest to add SA clause and Attribution clause as requirement for any new open and free license in CT point 3. It would help to ease problems with big data contributors which could agree with ODBL (as it

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Simon Ward
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 08:31:42PM +0100, Graham Jones wrote: It is true that we had a vote, but I am becoming less convinced that we voted the right way. I voted in favour of the change on the basis that at the superficial level the existing and proposed licences seemed so similar that I

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Ulf Möller o...@ulfm.de wrote: Am 19.07.2010 22:31, schrieb Anthony: IIRC, the contributor terms changed significantly *after* the vote took place. http://www.osmfoundation.org/index.php?title=License/Contributor_Termsdiff=326oldid=204 Yeah, that's as

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Ulf Möller
Am 19.07.2010 22:42, schrieb Michael Barabanov: NearMap looks quite important for Australia. The LWG has stated that specific contributor terms will be considered on a case by case basis for external data sources. If NearMap are happy with the ODbL but not with the Contributor Terms then

Re: [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-19 Thread Ulf Möller
Am 17.07.2010 05:07, schrieb Michael Barabanov: 1. Current license does not cover the OSM data (I think that's the OSMF view). In this case, OSMF can just change to ODBL without asking anyone. The OSMF has a contractual relationship with its contributors. So if there is no copyright

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Michael Barabanov wrote: Rather than receiving questions back, some actual answers to direct questions about adding SA-like requirement to CT would be nice. Well I have already said that I am against it, and I have given the reasons. We have a large PD community in OSM - exactly how

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Simon Biber
Ulf Möller o...@ulfm.de wrote: The LWG has stated that specific contributor terms will be considered on a case by case basis for external data sources. If NearMap are happy with the ODbL but not with the Contributor Terms then maybe that should be done here. So can these specific

Re: [OSM-talk] Announcing the Open Brewpub Map

2010-07-19 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 1:44 AM, Sven Geggus li...@fuchsschwanzdomain.de wrote: Tagging is easy. Just add microbrewery=yes to the node or building area object of your local brewpub. Whee. Now, please define microbrewery and brewpub. Is this a microbrewery:

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Simon Ward
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 01:32:53AM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: If NearMap imagery is so important for OSM in Australia - and there are countries which have been mapped very well without aerial imagery of note - then let's make an exception for NearMap, let's include their data without them

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Liz
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: Sorry, but as far as I remember CT suddenly appeared on the table. Before that there was just ODBL. SteveC has already told me that either my memory was faulty or I wasn't paying attention for stating exactly that. Couldn't be bothered to look

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Liz
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, SteveC wrote: From my experience off list with all the people frustrated both in email and in person, those 20 or so people here just don't represent everyone else who'd prefer all this discussion to go to legal-talk and just move on with the license. quash all

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Simon Ward wrote: Is it really that bad to ask that the contributor terms require any new licence to be in the same spirit as the ODbL + DbCL or other share alike licenses? I'm not saying it is bad, I'm just saying that nobody has ever made an effort to find out what spirit most of the

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Ben Last
On 20 July 2010 08:10, Simon Ward si...@bleah.co.uk wrote: Not because of NearMap, no way would I just give in to some organisation who feels they can’t fit with our terms. I'm not assuming that Simon was necessarily directing that at us, but I think it's worth saying here that NearMap are

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread SteveC
On Jul 20, 2010, at 2:20 AM, Liz wrote: On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, SteveC wrote: From my experience off list with all the people frustrated both in email and in person, those 20 or so people here just don't represent everyone else who'd prefer all this discussion to go to legal-talk and just move

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-19 Thread SteveC
On Jul 20, 2010, at 2:43 AM, John Smith wrote: On 20 July 2010 10:38, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: I'm left wondering if this problem is being over engineered by lawyers... Go ask on odc-discuss? Is there much point if I'm only likely to get a biased answer? You're right, much

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Simon Ward
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 02:26:57AM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: Simon Ward wrote: Is it really that bad to ask that the contributor terms require any new licence to be in the same spirit as the ODbL + DbCL or other share alike licenses? I'm not saying it is bad, I'm just saying that nobody

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