Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-12 Thread Shalabh
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Brendan Morley wrote: > Anthony, > > I realise no analogy is perfect. In this case a problem is that if somebody > "breaks into" the OSM data, he is not depriving the previous owners of it. > And it is an "Open" street map after all - we're *inviting* people into t

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-12 Thread Brendan Morley
Anthony, I realise no analogy is perfect. In this case a problem is that if somebody "breaks into" the OSM data, he is not depriving the previous owners of it. And it is an "Open" street map after all - we're *inviting* people into the house! By the way I'm not sure why "Copyright law is the

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-10 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 14:55, Anthony wrote: > > Good analogy, actually. ODbL is the fancy million dollar lock (which is > > brand new and has been tested much less than your previous $50 one). > > Copyright law is the big huge

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-10 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 14:55, Anthony wrote: > Good analogy, actually.  ODbL is the fancy million dollar lock (which is > brand new and has been tested much less than your previous $50 one). > Copyright law is the big huge window sitting next to the locked door. If you'd like to reach a wider au

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-10 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Tobias Knerr wrote: > Brendan Morley wrote: > > All for addressing, as far as I can tell, a theoretical problem, with no > real-world "exploits". > > I understand that actual exploits would make the problem more obvious, > but I find the underlying logic questiona

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-10 Thread Tobias Knerr
Brendan Morley wrote: > All for addressing, as far as I can tell, a theoretical problem, with no > real-world "exploits". I understand that actual exploits would make the problem more obvious, but I find the underlying logic questionable nevertheless. No one has broken into my house for 5 years

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-09 Thread Brendan Morley
On Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:39:13 +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote: >Hi, >Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 20:36, Liz wrote: >>> For Australians it means the loss of the coastline, most of which has been >>> re- >>> edited from government data, and major rivers like the Murray >>

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-07 Thread Ed Avis
Anthony inbox.org> writes: >What about dual licensing under CC-BY-SA and ODbL?  That way you can keep the >CC-BY-SA contributions.Of course, it doesn't make much sense, because the whole >point of ODbL is that it's more restrictive than CC-BY-SA. It makes a little bit of sense: the ODbL does hav

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-07 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Mike Collinson wrote: > We really, really, really, like to keep your and everyone's edits going > forward. But we have to respect your choice. Under the current regime, you > are allowing your contributions to be used only under CC BY SA 2.0. We > could duck the i

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-07 Thread Mike Collinson
At 09:24 PM 6/12/2009, morb@beagle.com.au wrote: >Quoting Anthony : > >> Part of me suspects that this whole notion of removing contributions from >> people who don't agree is going to get dropped. At least for the >> contributors who don't respond one way or the other. It's just going to >>

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-06 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 22:32, John F. Eldredge wrote: > By US law, this data is in and must remain in the public domain. No, it must be in the public domain at the time of its release by the US federal government but can be re-licensed later by anyone anywhere. We've currently re-licensed it unde

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-06 Thread John F. Eldredge
ink at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria -Original Message- From: Frederik Ramm Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:39:13 To: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason Cc: Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0 Hi, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 20:36,

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 20:36, Liz wrote: >> For Australians it means the loss of the coastline, most of which has been >> re- >> edited from government data, and major rivers like the Murray > > If someone presents me with a boolean "Do you allow relicensing

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-06 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 20:36, Liz wrote: > For Australians it means the loss of the coastline, most of which has been re- > edited from government data, and major rivers like the Murray If someone presents me with a boolean "Do you allow relicensing under the ODbL" I'll have to say no because som

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-06 Thread Liz
On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, morb@beagle.com.au wrote: > Quoting Anthony : > > Part of me suspects that this whole notion of removing contributions from > > people who don't agree is going to get dropped. At least for the > > contributors who don't respond one way or the other. It's just going to > >

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-06 Thread morb . gis
Quoting Anthony : > Part of me suspects that this whole notion of removing contributions from > people who don't agree is going to get dropped. At least for the > contributors who don't respond one way or the other. It's just going to > destroy too much of the database. Wow, this whole issue ha

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-06 Thread John F. Eldredge
contributions must automatically be deleted? Given the large number of contributors, it is a near certainty that some of them will have died by now. ---Original Email--- Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0 >From :balr...@gmail.com Date :Sun Dec 06 12:28

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-06 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 1:06 PM, 80n <80n...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Tobias Knerr wrote: > >> Using the object history is just an approximation based on the >> assumption that mappers will usually keep an object if they are >> improving existing data, and create new obj

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-06 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/12/6 80n <80n...@gmail.com>: > On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Tobias Knerr wrote: >> >> Pieren wrote: >> > Could someone deliver a script that could make this automatically for >> > me  :"take all elements where I am the last contributor but not the >> > only one then delete and recreate the

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-06 Thread 80n
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Tobias Knerr wrote: > Pieren wrote: > > Could someone deliver a script that could make this automatically for > > me :"take all elements where I am the last contributor but not the > > only one then delete and recreate them identically under my user > > account th

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-06 Thread Tobias Knerr
Pieren wrote: > Could someone deliver a script that could make this automatically for > me :"take all elements where I am the last contributor but not the > only one then delete and recreate them identically under my user > account then all my efforts are saved at the licence transition" ? In my

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-06 Thread Nop
Hi! Pieren schrieb: > Therefore, I would like to know what "you", the contributor, thinks > today about the transition to Odbl 1.0 licence in this opinion poll: > > http://doodle.com/feqszqirqqxi4r7w > It is good that there is a general poll of opinion. This is something the OSMF should have

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-06 Thread Pieren
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Ulf Lamping wrote: > Ouch! > > So I can write a small script that touches every element in the OSM database > to own the copyright of the whole database?!? > > Well, that's certainly not my understanding of copyright! > > Regards, ULFL > No, Matt corrected me. It m

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-06 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/12/6 Matt Amos : > On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Pieren wrote: >> So if your uploads are based on other authors who will reject >> the new licence, the data will remain anyway if "you, the last >> contributor in the history of this element" accepts the new licence. >> If you think that you

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-06 Thread Ulf Lamping
Pieren schrieb: > On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 5:25 PM, andrzej zaborowski wrote: >> I missed an option saying I'm in favour of ODbL but may not be in >> position to agree to relicense all data I uploaded (because part of it >> is CC-BY-SA owned by other authors). >> >> Cheers >> > > As far as I unders

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-06 Thread Matt Amos
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Pieren wrote: > On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 5:25 PM, andrzej zaborowski wrote: >> I missed an option saying I'm in favour of ODbL but may not be in >> position to agree to relicense all data I uploaded (because part of it >> is CC-BY-SA owned by other authors). >> >> Ch

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-06 Thread Sebastian Hohmann
Frederik Ramm schrieb: > Hi, > > Sebastian Hohmann wrote: >> I kind of miss the choise of "No, but I consider all my data PD". >> Because even though any PD data could be also made ODbL, there is no >> sense in declaring it PD if it's not collected and published as PD. >> Unless there is a mech

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-06 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:13 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > If we find that 80% of OSMers actually are pro PD then this will not > change the license one bit, but it might perhaps help reduce some > share-alike zealotry and we might interpret some things in a more > relaxed way (and ODbL leaves plent

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-06 Thread Pieren
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 5:25 PM, andrzej zaborowski wrote: > I missed an option saying I'm in favour of ODbL but may not be in > position to agree to relicense all data I uploaded (because part of it > is CC-BY-SA owned by other authors). > > Cheers > As far as I understood (but some experts might

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-06 Thread Pieren
And I would like that people reading this thread forwards and translates this call to other local lists for the widest polling as possible. Unfortunately, the licence itself is not (yet) translated. Pieren ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org ht

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-06 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/12/6 Pieren : > Because the foundation is deciding now if the current Odbl 1.0 licence > proposal will be the next OSM licence you will have to accept or > refuse in February 2010, I would like to know what the community > itself thinks about this Odbl 1.0. I missed an option saying I'm in fa

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-06 Thread Pieren
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Sebastian Hohmann wrote: > I kind of miss the choise of "No, but I consider all my data PD". > Because even though any PD data could be also made ODbL, there is no > sense in declaring it PD if it's not collected and published as PD. > Unless there is a mechanisim i

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Sebastian Hohmann wrote: > I kind of miss the choise of "No, but I consider all my data PD". > Because even though any PD data could be also made ODbL, there is no > sense in declaring it PD if it's not collected and published as PD. > Unless there is a mechanisim in OSM to e.g. "Download o

Re: [OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

2009-12-06 Thread Sebastian Hohmann
Pieren schrieb: > Because the foundation is deciding now if the current Odbl 1.0 licence > proposal will be the next OSM licence you will have to accept or > refuse in February 2010, I would like to know what the community > itself thinks about this Odbl 1.0. > As Ulf Lamping said, it will be a gun