Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-25 Thread Jaak Laineste
Well, it has been stated multiple times that it was a lawyer opinion that Francis Davey, who also claims to be a lawyer, gave an opposite opinion. CC-BY-SA didn't apply to our data, and factual databases aren't protected by Which is a false premise, map data isn't factual data and copyright

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-24 Thread Nic Roets
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Julio Costa Zambelli julio.co...@openstreetmap.cl wrote: On 23 June 2011 16:52, Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com wrote: It's much closer to what's been happening in the Arab States this year: There are at least two big difference between revolutions in the Maghreb

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-24 Thread Thomas Davie
On 24 Jun 2011, at 06:32, Mike Dupont wrote: but being locked out of osm is also not pretty. No one is locked out of OSM. You are free to contribute under the CTs, as you always have been. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-24 Thread Michael Collinson
On 23/06/2011 17:35, John Smith wrote: On 24 June 2011 01:27, Robert Scottli...@humanleg.org.uk wrote: So - what, you're saying we should be doing the whole list-ten-thousand-names-in-the-corner thing? I don't understand - what's your point? My point is, why should other sites

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-24 Thread Ed Loach
Nic wrote: Basically all you are saying is that mailing lists are a bad way to measure support. And I agree 100%. Can you prove that the average contributor thinks that the benefits* of the ODbL exceeds the cost of implementing it** ? Then I will personally start telling people that they

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-24 Thread John Smith
On 24 June 2011 18:06, Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: 4. At Your or the copyright owner’s option, OSMF agrees to attribute You or the copyright owner. A mechanism will be provided, currently a web page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution.; Hope that helps. I am personally

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-24 Thread John Smith
On 24 June 2011 18:10, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote: But I had a look at fosm.org yesterday and they (whoever they are - is there a fosmf?) seem to be making the same mistake that osm.org did with the original CTs; should they ever need to relicense (say move from cc-by-sa 2.0 to 3.0) the

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-24 Thread 80n
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote: But I had a look at fosm.org yesterday and they (whoever they are - is there a fosmf?) There is no fosmf, and I rather hope there never will be. seem to be making the same mistake that osm.org did with the original CTs;

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-24 Thread Michael Collinson
On 24/06/2011 10:21, John Smith wrote: On 24 June 2011 18:06, Michael Collinsonm...@ayeltd.biz wrote: 4. At Your or the copyright owner’s option, OSMF agrees to attribute You or the copyright owner. A mechanism will be provided, currently a web page

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-24 Thread John Smith
On 24 June 2011 19:31, Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: We have almost completed work so that the page link goes out with each and every extraction of geodata ever made (planet dump, API, ...) which is the important thing. Good point though, and I have requested appropriate changes to

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-24 Thread 80n
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:35 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: n 24 June 2011 19:31, Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: We have almost completed work so that the page link goes out with each and every extraction of geodata ever made (planet dump, API, ...) which is the

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-24 Thread colliar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 +100 Cheers colliar Am 23.06.2011 01:35, schrieb john whelan: I absolutely agree. Cheerio John On 22 June 2011 19:29, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au mailto:da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 13:49 -0700, Steve

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-24 Thread Henk Hoff
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:25 PM, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: n 24 June 2011 19:31, Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: We have almost completed work so that the page link goes out with each and every extraction of geodata ever made (planet dump, API, ...) which is the important

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-24 Thread 80n
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Henk Hoff toffeh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:25 PM, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: n 24 June 2011 19:31, Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: We have almost completed work so that the page link goes out with each and every extraction

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: The one exception is currently Potlatch which is embedded and obviously displays map content. Because Potlatch is embedded, you are encouraged to put any copyright notices you wish in the embedding page. :) cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Steve Doerr
On 22/06/2011 21:22, Mike Dupont wrote: did you see this? http://www.archive.org/download/SharedMap2/index.html That's nice. Just a thought: shouldn't there be some sort of attribution? -- Steve ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread John Smith
On 23 June 2011 18:41, Steve Doerr doerr.step...@gmail.com wrote: On 22/06/2011 21:22, Mike Dupont wrote: did you see this? http://www.archive.org/download/SharedMap2/index.html That's nice. Just a thought: shouldn't there be some sort of attribution? The attribution was put into the JS

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Ed Loach
The attribution was put into the JS file, but I'm looking into why that doesn't display. I'm no expert, but see http://dev.openlayers.org/docs/files/OpenLayers/Control/Attribution- js.html your map seems to be lacking one in the var map declaration. Ed

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread John Smith
On 23 June 2011 18:41, Steve Doerr doerr.step...@gmail.com wrote: On 22/06/2011 21:22, Mike Dupont wrote: did you see this? http://www.archive.org/download/SharedMap2/index.html That's nice. Just a thought: shouldn't there be some sort of attribution? I just noticed that osm.org is missing

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Mike Dupont
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, SomeoneElse wrote: Odd. zoom in to the dizzy heights of 16 (in Denmark WA FWIW) and you get picture coming soon. I picked Denmark because it's somewhere that I've been and added stuff (to OSM, but would also

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Matt Williams
On 23 June 2011 12:50, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 June 2011 18:41, Steve Doerr doerr.step...@gmail.com wrote: On 22/06/2011 21:22, Mike Dupont wrote: did you see this? http://www.archive.org/download/SharedMap2/index.html That's nice. Just a thought: shouldn't there be

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Mike Dupont
The license on archive.org and all metadata is in a standard place, http://www.archive.org/details/SharedMap2 It can be updated at any time, seems that the sources are not stated. mike On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Steve Doerr doerr.step...@gmail.comwrote: On 22/06/2011 21:22, Mike Dupont

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: The attribution was put into the JS file, but I'm looking into why that doesn't display. You probably need a DG file instead. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Tobias Knerr
2011-06-23 John Smith: On 23 June 2011 18:41, Steve Doerr doerr.step...@gmail.com wrote: On 22/06/2011 21:22, Mike Dupont wrote: did you see this? http://www.archive.org/download/SharedMap2/index.html That's nice. Just a thought: shouldn't there be some sort of attribution? I just

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread John Smith
On 23 June 2011 21:00, Matt Williams li...@milliams.com wrote: No it isn't. There's a 'Copyright License' link in the sidebar on the left. Nice and obscure... ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread John Smith
On 23 June 2011 21:15, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: No, it isn't. It has the attribution right there on the Copyright License link. Unlike every other map site out there where the main attribution is at the bottom right side of the map. The Demo archive.org Tile Hosting map, on

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Tobias Knerr
2011-06-23 John Smith: On 23 June 2011 21:15, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: No, it isn't. It has the attribution right there on the Copyright License link. Unlike every other map site out there where the main attribution is at the bottom right side of the map. Maybe you just

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Graham Stewart (GrahamS)
Steve Coast wrote: 80n wrote: A: We will definitely stop using OSM as soon as OSM switches to ODbL for it's output. Q: Now when will that be? Personally I hope as soon as possible. I suspect it will be nice to give you 'no' guys some time to reconsider, as some already have.

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread John Smith
On 23 June 2011 21:47, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: Maybe you just don't know enough maps - there are plenty that list attribution elsewhere. This includes lots of maps for mobile devices (because these happen to have limited screen space), but also maps that use multiple sources

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 23 June 2011, John Smith wrote: The data is rendered from FOSM data. Which is 100% sourced from OpenStreetMap data. robert. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread John Smith
On 23 June 2011 21:53, Robert Scott li...@humanleg.org.uk wrote: On Thursday 23 June 2011, John Smith wrote: The data is rendered from FOSM data. Which is 100% sourced from OpenStreetMap data. I'm told there is at least 500 changesets not from OSM...

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 06/23/2011 01:51 PM, Graham Stewart (GrahamS) wrote: So in theory, while in this interim stage, we could stop providing any new data as CC-by-SA and instead offer a frozen CC-by-SA planet dump, with all work since that freeze available as an additional ODbL diff? Legal subtleties are

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 06/23/2011 01:53 PM, Robert Scott wrote: Which is 100% sourced from OpenStreetMap data. I understand that it is also possible to upload original content to fosm.org, so you're probalby talking about less than 100%. 99.999% or so ;) Bye Frederik

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread John Smith
On 23 June 2011 21:53, Robert Scott li...@humanleg.org.uk wrote: On Thursday 23 June 2011, John Smith wrote: The data is rendered from FOSM data. Which is 100% sourced from OpenStreetMap data. I find this ironic, if not out right amusing, OSM-F tries to hide any kind of attribution, yet you

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Graham Stewart (GrahamS)
Frederik Ramm wrote: Legal subtleties are best discussed on legal-talk. If you care to make your suggestion there, I'd be willing to point out why it doesn't work ;) Fair enough Frederik, if it's a legal subtlety then I probably don't want to know! :) But I do feel slightly uncomfortable

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread John Smith
On 23 June 2011 22:20, Graham Stewart (GrahamS) gra...@dalmuti.net wrote: But I do feel slightly uncomfortable that my edits, which I've now agreed should be licensed under ODbL, can currently be used by fosm to build a CC-by-SA competitor project which aims to divide our community. Erm how is

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen
 Before printing, think about the environment. -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Graham Stewart (GrahamS) [mailto:gra...@dalmuti.net] Verzonden: Thursday, June 23, 2011 2:20 PM Aan: talk@openstreetmap.org Onderwerp: Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Graham Stewart (GrahamS)
ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen wrote: The rotten thing here is that the ODBL fork has hijacked the domain name and servers, because of mainly because a majority let them do it. That is an odd way of saying the the majority is always right, and if wrong they are

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 06/23/2011 02:42 PM, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen The rotten thing here is that the ODBL fork has hijacked the domain name and servers, because of mainly because a majority let them do it. That's half as bad. Imagine that happening after country-wide

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 8:42 PM, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen g.grem...@cetest.nl wrote: The rotten thing here is that the ODBL fork has hijacked the domain name and servers, because of mainly because a majority let them do it. So I feel it very unfair to call the

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen wrote: Regards, Ing. Gert Gremmen, BSc Hey, cool. This is fun. Can we all join in? cheers Richard Fairhurst, MA (Cantab) -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 23 June 2011, John Smith wrote: On 23 June 2011 21:53, Robert Scott li...@humanleg.org.uk wrote: On Thursday 23 June 2011, John Smith wrote: The data is rendered from FOSM data. Which is 100% sourced from OpenStreetMap data. I'm told there is at least 500 changesets not

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 23 June 2011, John Smith wrote: On 23 June 2011 21:53, Robert Scott li...@humanleg.org.uk wrote: On Thursday 23 June 2011, John Smith wrote: The data is rendered from FOSM data. Which is 100% sourced from OpenStreetMap data. I find this ironic, if not out right amusing,

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread John Smith
On 24 June 2011 01:02, Robert Scott li...@humanleg.org.uk wrote: Nearly all of the data was generated by OpenStreetMap contributors under the OpenStreetMap flag, so I think the attribution should be mostly to OpenStreetMap. For starters you are confusing OSM contributors with OSM-F who

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen
@Eugene Please do not extend the discussion with incompatible examples. My example fits exactly the description of what is called forking: Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_%28software_development%29 http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/RightToFork @Graham, My reaction was just against the

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 23 June 2011, John Smith wrote: On 24 June 2011 01:02, Robert Scott li...@humanleg.org.uk wrote: Nearly all of the data was generated by OpenStreetMap contributors under the OpenStreetMap flag, so I think the attribution should be mostly to OpenStreetMap. For starters you

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread John Smith
On 24 June 2011 01:27, Robert Scott li...@humanleg.org.uk wrote: So - what, you're saying we should be doing the whole list-ten-thousand-names-in-the-corner thing? I don't understand - what's your point? My point is, why should other sites be forced into attribution even OSM-F isn't willing

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 23 June 2011, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen wrote: @Eugene Please do not extend the discussion with incompatible examples. My example fits exactly the description of what is called forking: Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_%28software_development%29

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Tobias Knerr
2011-06-23 John Smith: Which is derived from OpenStreetMap data. Therefore, the tiles are ultimately derived from OpenStreetMap data, too. Quoting CC BY-SA 2.0: As you said yourself above it's not reasonable to expect a lengthy attribution, especially when dealing with small screens, such as

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread John Smith
On 24 June 2011 01:41, Robert Scott li...@humanleg.org.uk wrote: So because people have decided to start a voluntary project, they have to be answerable to absolutely everybody... everywhere... ever? No matter how unreasonable or logically warped they are (no names mentioned)? Everyone gets

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread John Smith
On 24 June 2011 01:49, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: 2011-06-23 John Smith: Which is derived from OpenStreetMap data. Therefore, the tiles are ultimately derived from OpenStreetMap data, too. Quoting CC BY-SA 2.0: As you said yourself above it's not reasonable to expect a lengthy

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Tobias Knerr
John Smith: On 24 June 2011 01:49, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: 2011-06-23 John Smith: Which is derived from OpenStreetMap data. Therefore, the tiles are ultimately derived from OpenStreetMap data, too. Quoting CC BY-SA 2.0: As you said yourself above it's not reasonable to

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread John Smith
On 24 June 2011 02:00, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: There are two plausible legal interpretations: - the original author is OpenStreetMap - the original author are a lot of individuals You left off companies that have donated data. No matter which interpretation you choose, your

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Op 23-06-11 17:41, Robert Scott schreef: Yet people somehow still know what Linux is and where to get it, because it tends to center itself around where all the competent people are. Now think this in BSD perspective. And ask yourself how your

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Tobias Knerr
2011-06-23 John Smith: I'm not interested in talking about OSMF's legal choices with you. Oh so it's a case of do as I say, not as I do... No, it's a case of don't feed the troll. If someone else still reads this thread and is honestly interested in related legal matters, I suggest to open

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:22 PM, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen g.grem...@cetest.nl wrote: @Eugene Please do not extend the discussion with incompatible examples. My example fits exactly the description of what is called forking: Try

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:49 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Every open source project I can think of has a fixed set of principals by which the code will be licensed under, and the license defines the sort of people that will join and help out, those requiring you to sign

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread John Smith
On 24 June 2011 02:36, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Signing your rights away is not necessarily a bad thing. (The FSF asks you to do exactly that when contributing to GNU software projects, for good reasons, though others may rightfully disagree.) 2. Anyway, the OSM CT does

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread David Murn
On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 20:50 +1000, John Smith wrote: On 23 June 2011 18:41, Steve Doerr doerr.step...@gmail.com wrote: On 22/06/2011 21:22, Mike Dupont wrote: did you see this? http://www.archive.org/download/SharedMap2/index.html That's nice. Just a thought: shouldn't there be some

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
2011/6/23 Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de: If you distribute [...] any Derivative Works or Collective Works, You must keep intact all copyright notices for the Work and give the Original Author credit reasonable to the medium or means [...]. -- Tobias Knerr I understand from this that the

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread John Smith
On 24 June 2011 04:14, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: I pointed this out once and the response was that osm.org doesnt need attribution because there is a logo in the top-left corner. I guess the same logic could be applied here, since the name 'OpenStreetMap' is on the fosm.org

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread David Murn
On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 17:22 +0200, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen wrote: @Eugene Please do not extend the discussion with incompatible examples. My example fits exactly the description of what is called forking: Try

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Kaiser
David Murn schrieb: Now, say half a dozen developers decided to take the GPL codebase, call it FreeLinux and continue development, while encouraging anyone who ever contributed to the project under GPL and wants to continue using that licence, to come over to their project. If they wouldn't

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread John Smith
On 24 June 2011 04:43, Robert Kaiser ka...@kairo.at wrote: That said, I'm happy about FOSM, if I ever become a resident of the US and that legal opinion on this matter still holds up, I might pull its data and provide it under PD myself. Unlikely, maps were the first thing to be protected

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Steve Coast
On 6/22/2011 5:16 PM, David Murn wrote: On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 16:25 -0700, Steve Coast wrote: Well there's one other aspect which is there are chunks of data only available to OpenStreetMap and nobody else. Does the data exclusively available under the ODbL outweigh the data exclusively

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Mike Dupont
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 5:35 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: You seem to be the one disrupting things, as far as I'm concerned I attributed to FOSM who in turn attributes their sources. +1 there is a chain of attribution. All the data is available, fosm includes osm data so it

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Nic Roets
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: Uh huh. So I suppose if there were a successful plebiscite in a country wanting to change their form of government from presidential to parliamentary (or vice versa) then that's a rotten thing unless the winning side

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nic Roets wrote: But I also don't know why you three compare the license change to ordinary democratic processes. It's much closer to what's been happening in the Arab States this year. ticks off 'Godwin' on the Hyperbole Bingo card cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
Nic, Nic Roets wrote: A modern democratic government would have found a way to defuse the situation long ago. I've actually thought about that for quite a while and came to the conclusion that the problems we're seeing are probably due to OSM being such an unstructured, little-governed

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Milo van der Linden
This discussion makes me sad. My personal motivation in life is : everybody should live in freedom . Derived from this: alternatives are good, monopoly is bad fosm; I embrace the initiative, but you have a lot of marketing to do if you want people to come to FOSM. A website with broken links,

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Tobias Knerr
2011-06-23 M∡rtin Koppenhoefer: 2011/6/23 Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de: If you distribute [...] any Derivative Works or Collective Works, You must keep intact all copyright notices for the Work and give the Original Author credit reasonable to the medium or means [...]. I understand

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Kaiser
John Smith schrieb: On 24 June 2011 04:43, Robert Kaiserka...@kairo.at wrote: That said, I'm happy about FOSM, if I ever become a resident of the US and that legal opinion on this matter still holds up, I might pull its data and provide it under PD myself. Unlikely, maps were the first thing

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Kaiser
Frederik Ramm schrieb: I've actually thought about that for quite a while and came to the conclusion that the problems we're seeing are probably due to OSM being such an unstructured, little-governed project. Hey, I've been saying this for weeks! (Not in here, though...) ;-) I indeed believe

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: Unlikely, maps were the first thing to be protected under copyright Um, no. The first thing to be protected by copyright was an Old Irish psalter. Is and gabais Fergus dóib daur mór ro-boí for lár ind liss assa frénaib, etc. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Scott
On Thursday 23 June 2011, John Smith wrote: More importantly, if fosm is so much more legitimate and important than OpenStreetMap, why are you still over here taking a dump on our list? You're the one making a big song and dance about things. I wouldn't say I'm making a song and dance

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Julio Costa Zambelli
On 23 June 2011 16:52, Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com wrote: It's much closer to what's been happening in the Arab States this year: There are at least two big difference between revolutions in the Maghreb and Arab Countries, and the License discussion inside OSM. In this mailing lists it

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread John Smith
On 24 June 2011 07:39, Robert Kaiser ka...@kairo.at wrote: Well, it has been stated multiple times that it was a lawyer opinion that Francis Davey, who also claims to be a lawyer, gave an opposite opinion. CC-BY-SA didn't apply to our data, and factual databases aren't protected by Which is a

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread John Smith
On 24 June 2011 08:49, Julio Costa Zambelli julio.co...@openstreetmap.cl wrote: On 23 June 2011 16:52, Nic Roets nro...@gmail.com wrote: It's much closer to what's been happening in the Arab States this year: There are at least two big difference between revolutions in the Maghreb and Arab

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Julio Costa Zambelli
On 23 June 2011 23:58, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: So you quote one line and fail to point out what falsities I'm making. So that is what my message was all about? Thanks for clarifying it to me... ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread John Smith
On 24 June 2011 14:32, Julio Costa Zambelli julio.co...@openstreetmap.cl wrote: On 23 June 2011 23:58, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: So you quote one line and fail to point out what falsities I'm making. So that is what my message was all about? Thanks for clarifying it to me...

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-23 Thread Mike Dupont
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Milo van der Linden m...@dogodigi.netwrote: fosm; I embrace the initiative, but you have a lot of marketing to do if you want people to come to FOSM. A website with broken links, no information about who initiated the fork or any insight about the who, why

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-22 Thread 80n
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Jaakko Helleranta.com jaa...@helleranta.com wrote: As I suggest in the subject line: I'd really love us not to punish the world's disadvantaged with our license/CT disagreements. That's why fosm.org exists. No data will get deleted. It will continue to

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-22 Thread SteveC
How will fosm (assuming it reaches the stage of being functional) continue to sync with OSM when the licenses are incompatible? Steve On Jun 22, 2011, at 11:18 AM, 80n wrote: On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Jaakko Helleranta.com jaa...@helleranta.com wrote: As I suggest in the

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-22 Thread Fabio Alessandro Locati
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:31 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: How will fosm (assuming it reaches the stage of being functional) continue to sync with OSM when the licenses are incompatible? I think they will stop it as soon as last CC dump is released Fabio

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-22 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, 80n wrote: That's why fosm.org http://fosm.org exists. No data will get deleted. It will continue to exist and can be updated at fosm.org http://fosm.org. If you are worried that your data is threatened then that's because you are now looking in the wrong place. Fosm has more data

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-22 Thread 80n
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 7:31 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: How will fosm (assuming it reaches the stage of being functional) continue to sync with OSM when the licenses are incompatible? 1. fosm.org is functional, you should try it. 2. When will the license become incompatible? The

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-22 Thread Steve Coast
On 6/22/2011 12:51 PM, 80n wrote: On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 7:31 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com mailto:st...@asklater.com wrote: How will fosm (assuming it reaches the stage of being functional) continue to sync with OSM when the licenses are incompatible? 1. fosm.org http://fosm.org

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-22 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 08:51:43PM +0100, 80n wrote: On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 7:31 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: How will fosm (assuming it reaches the stage of being functional) continue to sync with OSM when the licenses are incompatible? 1. fosm.org is functional, you should

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
jaakkoh wrote: This may well be my first post to the talk list Brave soul. :) (But welcome, seriously.) Browsing a little with the new license status option of Potlatch 2.2 I'm seeing unfortunately lot of red on the map (and some orange, too). Don't get too disheartened. To take your

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-22 Thread Mike Dupont
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: ** On 6/22/2011 12:51 PM, 80n wrote: On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 7:31 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: How will fosm (assuming it reaches the stage of being functional) continue to sync with OSM when the licenses are

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-22 Thread 80n
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: On 6/22/2011 12:51 PM, 80n wrote: 2. When will the license become incompatible? The current plan suggests it will be a long time yet. Timing isn't relevant to the question. Sounds like you'll have to stop using OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-22 Thread ThomasB
Mike Dupont wrote: did you see this? http://www.archive.org/download/SharedMap2/index.html do you mean the picture coming soon at zoom level 7 or 8? Are you really planing to use pre-rendered tiles at archive.org for the whole world, updated by a handful local computers a la BOINC

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-22 Thread ThomasB
80n wrote: From here on in, OSM loses ground against fosm.org. quite obvious http://ni.kwsn.net/~toby/OSM/license_count_2.png You may be a bit confused with the scales. -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-22 Thread Steve Coast
On 6/22/2011 1:26 PM, 80n wrote: On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com mailto:st...@asklater.com wrote: On 6/22/2011 12:51 PM, 80n wrote: 2. When will the license become incompatible? The current plan suggests it will be a long time yet. Timing

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-22 Thread 80n
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: ** On 6/22/2011 1:26 PM, 80n wrote: On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com wrote: On 6/22/2011 12:51 PM, 80n wrote: 2. When will the license become incompatible? The current plan suggests

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-22 Thread Steve Coast
On 6/22/2011 1:46 PM, 80n wrote: On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com mailto:st...@asklater.com wrote: On 6/22/2011 1:26 PM, 80n wrote: On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Steve Coast st...@asklater.com mailto:st...@asklater.com wrote: On

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-22 Thread David Murn
On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 21:17 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: I wonder what would happen if someone involved in running Google Map Maker were to post a similar message. Hey, don't like how things go in OSM? Why not come to Google Map Maker where all license issues are solved! Except that a) Map

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-22 Thread Steve Coast
Well there's one other aspect which is there are chunks of data only available to OpenStreetMap and nobody else. On 6/22/2011 4:22 PM, David Murn wrote: On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 21:17 +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: I wonder what would happen if someone involved in running Google Map Maker were to

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-22 Thread David Murn
On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 13:49 -0700, Steve Coast wrote: Personally I hope as soon as possible. I suspect it will be nice to give you 'no' guys some time to reconsider, as some already have. Such a pity you dont extend the same feelings to those 'yes guys' who wish to change their acceptance.

Re: [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

2011-06-22 Thread Steve Coast
Why do you feel you have a liability? Steve On 6/22/2011 4:29 PM, David Murn wrote: On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 13:49 -0700, Steve Coast wrote: Personally I hope as soon as possible. I suspect it will be nice to give you 'no' guys some time to reconsider, as some already have. Such a pity you

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