Re: [OSM-talk] STFU

2013-02-02 Thread Christopher Woods (IWD)
On 02/02/2013 22:07, Paweł Paprota wrote: On 02/02/2013 10:23 PM, Chris Hill wrote: Threats to leave the project remind me of the bullshit thrown around during licence-change when hardly anyone actually had the balls to follow through. If people are so unhappy then go, but do so quickly and qu

Re: [OSM-talk] Recent edits in the wiki / Trademark issue

2013-02-02 Thread Christopher Woods (IWD)
On 02/02/2013 21:01, Aun Yngve Johnsen wrote: This discussion is way out of hand. You guys screaming for publishing the C+D, didn't you see the answer from SimonPoole? They have asked lawyers about advise in publishing it, as well as releasing more information about it. It is not a sign of we

Re: [OSM-talk] Paweł's q: what can be done?

2013-02-02 Thread Christopher Woods (IWD)
On 02/02/2013 19:55, Michal Migurski wrote: For what it's worth, I agree with Jeff and Paweł on this. If OSMF is going to be a big, beautiful mess it should own that and publish the C&D for everyone to see. Anarchists gonna anarchate. If on the other hand we want strong leadership that can ha

Re: [OSM-talk] Recent edits in the wiki / Trademark issue

2013-02-01 Thread Christopher Woods (IWD)
On 01/02/2013 18:11, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2013/2/1 Simon Poole : issue with respect to the trademark GEOCODE owned by Geocode, Inc. of Alexandria, Virginia, USA. There are likely to be further related edits and changes both on the wiki and the help site. Please do not add such removed lin

Re: [OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: Recent edits in the wiki / Trademark issue

2013-02-01 Thread Christopher Woods (IWD)
On 01/02/2013 16:52, Cartinus wrote: Huh? What's really touchy is the osmf being secretive about something. If you got a letter from some lawyer, then the only way you might get all the volunteers in this project to comply is telling them what is happening. Original Message

Re: [OSM-talk] a license violation?

2013-01-02 Thread Christopher Woods (IWD)
On 02/01/2013 15:20, Richard Weait wrote: On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Tobias Knerr > wrote: Am 02.01.2013 11:41, Robin Paulson wrote: > http://store.axismaps.com/product/boston-blue > > osm is mentioned on the web site, but not on the poster itse

Re: [OSM-talk] a license violation?

2013-01-02 Thread Christopher Woods (IWD)
On 02/01/2013 10:46, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2013/1/2 Robin Paulson : i was looking for unusual uses of osm data, and found this: http://store.axismaps.com/product/boston-blue "Oops! We couldn’t find that page." Took a quick look at the store homepage and clicked through to the "Boston t

Re: [OSM-talk] Data copied from Google Maps

2012-11-04 Thread Christopher Woods (IWD)
On 04/11/2012 16:48, Andrew MacKinnon wrote: In my opinion, copying from Google Street View is still a legally dubious thing to do. There is no formal licensing agreement with Google that I know of. It is perfectly fine to capture data by taking pictures yourself, but relying on Google Street Vi