Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-18 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 09:04:32PM +0100, Stefan Keller wrote: Hi, 2014-03-16 10:38 GMT+01:00 Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de: For technical reasons Google cant use OUR data and THEIR community. Can't follow this argument: Data fusion is technically feasible beyond filling the holes. In

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-17 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 02:39:12PM +0100, Johan C wrote: We have much better map data? Based on what? OSM will for example in the next x years not be able to accomodate OSM friendly commercial companies like Telenav on addresses, lane assistance and POI's. I have been with OSM since 2007 and i

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-17 Thread Alex Barth
Just posted my comments to key points that came up in the conversation over on the diary: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/lxbarth/diary/21221#comment25849 On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: Hello everyone - I've been sitting on writing about the detrimental

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-16 Thread Johan C
We have much better map data? Based on what? OSM will for example in the next x years not be able to accomodate OSM friendly commercial companies like Telenav on addresses, lane assistance and POI's. Op zondag 16 maart 2014 heeft Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de het volgende geschreven: We have

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-16 Thread Yves
You'll be surprised. On 16 mars 2014 14:39:12 UTC+01:00, Johan C osm...@gmail.com wrote: We have much better map data? Based on what? OSM will for example in the next x years not be able to accomodate OSM friendly commercial companies like Telenav on addresses, lane assistance and POI's. Op

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-16 Thread NopMap
Lets jump into this discussion late but with an exceptionally short statement: A few years ago, I checked the box All my contributions to OSM data are in the public domain. Because I think that is they way it should be so everyone can play. Simple. bye, Nop -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-16 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi, 2014-03-16 10:38 GMT+01:00 Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de: For technical reasons Google cant use OUR data and THEIR community. Can't follow this argument: Data fusion is technically feasible beyond filling the holes. Even if argued in favour of CC-BY before, the current status quo of the

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-15 Thread Michael Kugelmann
Am 14.03.2014 12:43, schrieb o...@k3v.eu: IMHO, share alike is just like DRM on music What??? Come on, don't be foolish! DRM tries to prevent any reuse of date whereat Share Alike just requests to offer the data under the same conditions as you got them. This is a fundamental difference!

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-15 Thread Kevin Peat
On 15 March 2014 08:22:26 GMT, Michael Kugelmann michaelk_...@gmx.de wrote: Am 14.03.2014 12:43, schrieb o...@k3v.eu: IMHO, share alike is just like DRM on music What??? Come on, don't be foolish! DRM tries to prevent any reuse of date whereat Share Alike just requests to offer the data under

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-15 Thread Stefan Keller
2014-03-15 11:22 GMT+01:00 Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: ... Do you know of any case where OSMF did more than write a letter? Just being curious: Do you - or anybody else - know of any specific case where G* wrote more than a letter? --S. 2014-03-15 11:22 GMT+01:00 Martin

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-15 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Indeed, almost no license violation cases make it to court. In the 20 years since the GPL was created, it has gone to court only a handful of times, yet there have been hundreds (maybe thousands) of license violations which have been settled out of court. A court case benefits neither side. It's

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-15 Thread Norbert Wenzel
On 03/15/2014 11:22 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Am 14/mar/2014 um 09:48 schrieb Norbert Wenzel norbert.wenzel.li...@gmail.com: And to the topic. It might not always be easy to enforce the share-alike clause, but I really like the fact that we have it and may enforce it if necessary.

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 15/mar/2014 um 11:31 schrieb Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com: Just being curious: Do you - or anybody else - know of any specific case where G* wrote more than a letter? Maybe people act faster if it's G who writes the letter. I never got one from them but I'd expect it to be from a

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 14/mar/2014 um 14:52 schrieb Peter Wendorff wendo...@uni-paderborn.de: ODBL does not require Share-Alike for produced works. The map, even when based on OSM data is a produced work. Therefore even if the map is based on osm data, it's not share-alike, and any data based on the map IMHO

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-15 Thread Simon Poole
Martin Continuing to repeat a twisted version of what actually happened does not make it truer. Apple: the Foundation has engaged (documented) multiple times with the company on this matter, even though, as you VERY well know, the data they use is pre-licence change and the OSMF has no IP rights

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-15 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 15/03/2014, Kevin Peat o...@k3v.eu wrote: On 15 March 2014 08:22:26 GMT, Michael Kugelmann michaelk_...@gmx.de wrote: Am 14.03.2014 12:43, schrieb o...@k3v.eu: IMHO, share alike is just like DRM on music What??? Come on, don't be foolish! DRM tries to prevent any reuse of date whereat Share

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-15 Thread Tobias Knerr
On 14.03.2014 23:21, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: There's one fairly obvious to me : the share-alike requirement is necessary to enforce the attribution requirement (otherwise any user could just change the license to one that doesn't require attribution). It would not be legal for them to get

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-15 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 15/03/2014, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: On 14.03.2014 23:21, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: There's one fairly obvious to me : the share-alike requirement is necessary to enforce the attribution requirement (otherwise any user could just change the license to one that doesn't require

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-15 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 2:44 PM, moltonel 3x Combo molto...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/03/2014, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: On 14.03.2014 23:21, moltonel 3x Combo wrote: There's one fairly obvious to me : the share-alike requirement is necessary to enforce the attribution requirement

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-03-15 12:16 GMT+01:00 Simon Poole si...@osmfoundation.org: Apple: the Foundation has engaged (documented) multiple times with the company on this matter, even though, as you VERY well know, the data they use is pre-licence change and the OSMF has no IP rights in the data. While not

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-14 Thread Russ Nelson
Paweł Paprota writes: Unless you protect and license your work, you *will* be exploited by a powerful corporation. It is not possible for any powerful corporation to exploit OpenStreetMap data. That's because OpenStreetMap is not way #20101312, it is Paweł Paprota. OpenStreetMap is not node

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-14 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:26:23AM -0400, Alex Barth wrote: Hello everyone - I've been sitting on writing about the detrimental effects of OpenStreetMap's share-alike license (ODbL) for a while and finally decided to, um, share. I've been listening long to many OpenStreetMappers I respect a

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-14 Thread Norbert Wenzel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/14/2014 12:41 AM, Michael Kugelmann wrote: Am 13.03.2014 15:26, schrieb Alex Barth: Looking forward to your comments, No! Stay at Share alike to avoid misuse of open data! Compare it to the GPL which is frequently used in OS-Sortware. Am I

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-14 Thread Stefan Keller
With current ODbL I'm mainly concerned about 1. small and medium corporations as well as 2. government entities. I'm not so concerned about big companies, especially G* exploiting OSM (although I dislike some behaviours of G*). So I'm in favor of CC-BY (e.g.

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-14 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Friday 14 March 2014, Florian Lohoff wrote: [...] Today maintaining the Linux Kernel or OSM without a HUGE community is a lost fight so there is nothing to gain by taking this data _from_ the community. Those who do this are the ones to loose, not the ones giving away their code/data.

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-14 Thread Simon Poole
One thing I would like to hear about in this context of this discussion, are examples of concrete use cases that are not happening because of share alike and that are in general things that the community would like to support (so not evil corp can't take the data now and keep it). Concrete in the

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-14 Thread sabas88
2014-03-14 10:58 GMT+01:00 Simon Poole si...@poole.ch: Example: one of the classical straw men is that government GIS offices over the whole world would wide spread directly take OSM data and integrate it in to their own official datasets, if you believe that, I have a number of bridges

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-14 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Norbert, 1. Yes, it would be fair to say that ODbL is much closer to LGPL than it is to GPL. The ODbL does not require Share-Alike merely on combining two datasets, but only if you modify the data that's in OSM in addition to adding your own. 2. Using GPG is good. Using GPG without MIME

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-14 Thread osm
On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:58:57 +0100, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: One thing I would like to hear about in this context of this discussion, are examples of concrete use cases that are not happening because of share alike and that are in general things that the community would like to support

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-14 Thread Martin Raifer
To throw another log into the fire: What about imports? OSM having a share-alike licence enabled us to incorporate (and otherwise use) all kinds of open data sets, which may be licensed PD/CC0, CC-BY, CC-BY-SA or ODbL. (A lot of open government data in the EU is released under CC-BY or

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-14 Thread Simon Poole
Am 14.03.2014 12:43, schrieb o...@k3v.eu: ... On the flip side of this, if share alike is so great where are the examples of organisations contributing back to OSM because of it? Mostly I think organisations contribute because it is in their interest to do so (a better map makes their

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-14 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 7:43 AM, o...@k3v.eu wrote: On the flip side of this, if share alike is so great where are the examples of organisations contributing back to OSM because of it? We see this already. I've spoken to companies and orgs who have said specifically that they would not

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-14 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
Simon Poole wrote: One thing I would like to hear about in this context of this discussion, are examples of concrete use cases that are not happening because of share alike and that are in general things that the community would like to support (so not evil corp can't take the data now and keep

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-14 Thread Simon Poole
Am 14.03.2014 14:17, schrieb Jukka Rahkonen: .. Hi Simon, We have considered that we cannot use OpenStreetMap as a background map in any of the applications where users are sending location aware information back to administration. For showing existing data it would be OK but not

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-14 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On 14 March 2014 12:01, Martin Raifer tyr@gmail.com wrote: OSM having a share-alike licence enabled us to incorporate (and otherwise use) all kinds of open data sets, which may be licensed PD/CC0, CC-BY, CC-BY-SA or ODbL. (A lot of open government data in the EU is released under CC-BY or

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-14 Thread Peter Wendorff
Hi Jukka, although I'm curious about an answer from someone who's more competent in the legal things, I'm not sure with your argument here. ODBL does not require Share-Alike for produced works. The map, even when based on OSM data is a produced work. Therefore even if the map is based on osm

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-14 Thread Florian Lohoff
Hi, On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:58:57AM +0100, Simon Poole wrote: One thing I would like to hear about in this context of this discussion, are examples of concrete use cases that are not happening because of share alike and that are in general things that the community would like to support

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-14 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
Simon Poole wrote: Two remarks/questions: - is the derived data actually being publicly used? Sometimes is, sometimes not. If it is publicly used then it may be that only part of the attributes are public. Something that is not publicly used right now may come public in the future but still

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-14 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: We see this already. I've spoken to companies and orgs who have said specifically that they would not contribute to OSM if it was not Share-Alike. No one wants to be competing against themselves in the future. This

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-14 Thread Cristian Consonni
2014-03-13 15:26 GMT+01:00 Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com: I've been sitting on writing about the detrimental effects of OpenStreetMap's share-alike license (ODbL) for a while and finally decided to, um, share. I've been listening long to many OpenStreetMappers I respect a ton telling me it's not

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-14 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 14/03/2014, o...@k3v.eu o...@k3v.eu wrote: On the flip side of this, if share alike is so great where are the examples of organisations contributing back to OSM because of it? There's one fairly obvious to me : the share-alike requirement is necessary to enforce the attribution requirement

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-14 Thread moltonel 3x Combo
On 14/03/2014, Jukka Rahkonen jukka.rahko...@latuviitta.fi wrote: For showing existing data it would be OK but not for gathering data from users because user could locate a place corner of Annankatu and Merimiehenkatu http://osm.org/go/0xPLoLTa0?m= by looking at the OSM map. The interpretation

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-14 Thread Toby Murray
On Mar 14, 2014 8:24 AM, Jukka Rahkonen jukka.rahko...@latuviitta.fi wrote: Simon Poole wrote: One thing I would like to hear about in this context of this discussion, are examples of concrete use cases that are not happening because of share alike and that are in general things that the

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-13 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/lxbarth/diary/21221 Looking forward to your comments, No, thanks, the licence is good as it is. -- -S ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-13 Thread THEVENON Julien
De : Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com Hello everyone - I've been sitting on writing about the detrimental effects of OpenStreetMap's share-alike license (ODbL) for a while and finally decided to, um, share. I've been listening long to many OpenStreetMappers I respect a ton telling me it's not

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-13 Thread Paweł Paprota
Read this and substitute OSM for Wikipedia: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/13/google_stabs_wikipedia_in_the_front/ quote The moral is: if you're a contributor to an open web resource, then beware: the hippy ethos simply marks you out as a mug. Unless you protect and license your work, you 

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-13 Thread yvecai
Oh yes yes yes, let's have some real fun again, let's change the Licence ! Yves On 03/13/2014 03:26 PM, Alex Barth wrote: Hello everyone - I've been sitting on writing about the detrimental effects of OpenStreetMap's share-alike license (ODbL) for a while and finally decided to, um, share.

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-13 Thread Tobias Knerr
On 13.03.2014 15:31, Simone Cortesi wrote: Looking forward to your comments, No, thanks, the licence is good as it is. Far from it, there's a lot that's wrong with the ODbL: First of all, it's too hard to understand. Even on legal-talk, you often don't get useful statements about what is and

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-13 Thread Fernando Trebien
Under which license would you share it? And why? OSM offers you so many opportunities, I wonder what could be missing. On Mar 13, 2014 11:28 AM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: Hello everyone - I've been sitting on writing about the detrimental effects of OpenStreetMap's share-alike

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-13 Thread Simon Poole
I wrote an unpublished blog article a week ago (obviously not in response to post of Alex) that I've put online now http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SimonPoole/diary/21225 It might be of interest where IMHO Alex didn't get it quite right. Simon

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-13 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Thursday 13 March 2014, Tobias Knerr wrote: No, thanks, the licence is good as it is. Far from it, there's a lot that's wrong with the ODbL: First of all, it's too hard to understand. Even on legal-talk, you often don't get useful statements about what is and what isn't allowed.

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-13 Thread Simon Poole
Besides predicting that exactly that would happen with Wikipedia once google started providing WP based excerpts, I don't think that it is really an argument pro/con any specific licence*. WP historically was the sole consumer and distributor of WP data of note, in the case of OSM that has

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-13 Thread Christian Quest
I've posted a comment on Alex post, but I need to clarify a few things. The part were I also think ODbL may be a problem is regarding collaborating with government agencies where share-alike is required. It is a pitty that these agencies cannot join OSM because of ODbL, not because they just

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-13 Thread Jake Wasserman
Alex, I agree with you! Figured I'd speak up as it always seems the no votes get all the attention on the list. -Jake On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Christian Quest cqu...@openstreetmap.frwrote: I've posted a comment on Alex post, but I need to clarify a few things. The part were I also

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-13 Thread Frederik Ramm
Jake, On 13.03.2014 20:17, Jake Wasserman wrote: Figured I'd speak up as it always seems the no votes get all the attention on the list. This is not a vote; it is a discussion. Although the distinction becomes blurred sometimes, in discussions it is common to think about an issue, balance the

Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

2014-03-13 Thread Michael Kugelmann
Am 13.03.2014 15:26, schrieb Alex Barth: Looking forward to your comments, No! Stay at Share alike to avoid misuse of open data! Compare it to the GPL which is frequently used in OS-Sortware. Best regards, Michael. ___ talk mailing list

[Talk-us] Moderating agree/disagree comments (was Re: [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike)

2014-03-13 Thread Alex Barth
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: On 13.03.2014 20:17, Jake Wasserman wrote: Figured I'd speak up as it always seems the no votes get all the attention on the list. This is not a vote; it is a discussion. Although the distinction becomes blurred