Re: [OSM-talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-20 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 1:34 AM, Simon Ward si...@bleah.co.uk wrote: On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 02:18:41PM +0100, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2010/11/16 David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au: Maybe I missed something, but when were the decisions made? back in 2008 The decisions had to be “the

Re: [OSM-talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-20 Thread Anthony
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: The CT is a separate issue, and that was only ratified in (I believe) 2010 in its current form. Ratified by the LWG. Neither the membership nor the community got to vote on it.

Re: [OSM-talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-20 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 18:01:00 -0500 Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: The CT is a separate issue, and that was only ratified in (I believe) 2010 in its current form. Ratified by the LWG. Neither the membership nor the

Re: [OSM-talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-19 Thread Simon Ward
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 02:18:41PM +0100, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2010/11/16 David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au: Maybe I missed something, but when were the decisions made? back in 2008 The decisions had to be “the current licence is not suitable, we should find something more

Re: [OSM-talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-17 Thread Peter Wendorff
Am 16.11.2010 23:17, schrieb Serge Wroclawski: If you honestly feel this way, explain in clear steps what the OSMF could do to work with dissenters that doesn't include stopping the current process of migrating to a new license. Not particularly focussed on the dissenters of the new license, I

Re: [OSM-talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-17 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:17:00 -0500 Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: The other reason this is complicated, though, is that OSM started with a faulty process of not requiring copyright assignment, which meant that every contributor had to be handled separately. That's being fixed now

Re: [OSM-talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-16 Thread Kevin Peat
On 16 November 2010 02:19, john whelan jwhelan0...@gmail.com wrote: I've been a little selective in quoting your message but I think you have correctly identified the split. Germany and the UK with high mapper density are probably for the new license and dumping the older data other parts of

Re: [OSM-talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-16 Thread Mike Dupont
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Kevin Peat ke...@kevinpeat.com wrote: Personally I don't care if the current license is weak as most organisations will respect its spirit and if a few don't who cares, it doesn't devalue our efforts one cent. I think if there is any case of people stealing

Re: [OSM-talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-16 Thread 80n
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Kevin Peat ke...@kevinpeat.com wrote: Personally I don't care if the current license is weak as most organisations will respect its spirit and if a few don't who cares, it

Re: [OSM-talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-16 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2010/11/16 David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au: Maybe I missed something, but when were the decisions made? back in 2008 That works great where youve got tiles full of lots of data, but what about in regional areas?  If a mapper wants to contribute data, is OSM not interested in that data,

Re: [OSM-talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-16 Thread David Murn
On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 14:18 +0100, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2010/11/16 David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au: Maybe I missed something, but when were the decisions made? back in 2008 Maybe thats the problem then. Ive been a mapper since 2007 but only actively involved in ths

Re: [OSM-talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-16 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 5:06 PM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: back in 2008 Maybe thats the problem then.  Ive been a mapper since 2007 but only actively involved in ths communication process since possibly after the decision was made. I wholeheartedly agree that the process has

Re: [OSM-talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-16 Thread john whelan
I think that the problems and implications of the change were not well explained or even understood at the time. I'm not even sure they are today by many people. My training in computer system design suggests that listing the requirements and concerns of the various users might be a useful

Re: [OSM-talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-15 Thread David Murn
On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 18:06 -0500, john whelan wrote: The decisions have been made, so it's time to accept them or if you don't, to leave. Maybe I missed something, but when were the decisions made? Last I heard, people were still being asked for their opinion. Did I miss the announcement of

Re: [OSM-talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-15 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 8:20 PM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: If someone was to approach OSM and say they were using OSM data in their project, but their projects licence was changing and therefore they'd like OSM to relicence our data under some licence theyve created for their

Re: [OSM-talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-15 Thread john whelan
I've been a little selective in quoting your message but I think you have correctly identified the split. Germany and the UK with high mapper density are probably for the new license and dumping the older data other parts of the world that don't have the luxury of such a high density of mappers

Re: [OSM-talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-14 Thread Dave F.
On 13/11/2010 20:01, john whelan wrote: Have a look around Turkey Street Station in Enfield sometime in North London where I understand Steve C has done a lot of mapping and you are literally reduced to a couple of footpaths. Whilst agreeing with you in principle, could you expand on why you

Re: [OSM-talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-14 Thread john whelan
It doesn't seem clear to me what the plan is concerning the existing data. I get the impression that a number of people feel we should throw away any data that isn't licensed in the new way which in Enfield means practically the entire road network. I haven't seen any information on what is

[OSM-talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-13 Thread Serge Wroclawski
I know we're not supposed to talk about the license change on this list, but with all the discussion over the last few days about the new license change map, I wanted to put together a website about the OSM contributor terms and the ongoing issues with people who want to fork OSM, either to make a

Re: [OSM-talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-13 Thread john whelan
I'd like to be reassured that any effort I put into mapping will be useful, ie we'll have a useful map at the end, not a blank page with two footpaths on it. Have a look around Turkey Street Station in Enfield sometime in North London where I understand Steve C has done a lot of mapping and you

Re: [OSM-talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-13 Thread john whelan
*The decisions have been made, so it's time to accept them or if you don't, to leave.* Thank you for your views on the OSM community. In my view it is a community and the relationship does need nurturing. Nowhere in my post did I express a view that a change of license is bad. However changes

Re: [OSM-talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-13 Thread john whelan
Look down your entire message was under my text. Cheerio John On 13 November 2010 18:44, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: This is a really unfair thing of you to have done, to take a very long (1 page) email, quote a single sentence and then repost it to a group. - Serge

Re: [OSM-talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-13 Thread Serge Wroclawski
This is a really unfair thing of you to have done, to take a very long (1 page) email, quote a single sentence and then repost it to a group. - Serge ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk