Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Database rights and who has them

2009-04-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote: Note that it is our lawyer's opinion that much of OSM data is protected by copyright and that the license does not reflect this adequately and relies on database rights too much I haven't really got time for the full reply this thread deserves, and obviously in this

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Tracing from Google Earth (aerial imagery)

2009-06-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
bap wrote: I think I have done the work of recognizing the features from Google's photo and Google certainly doesn't restrict what I can do with the KML file I export, so can I use this method to draw OSM maps? Disclaimer: I never use Google Earth, I've only looked at the Ts Cs for Google

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Tracing from Google Earth (aerial imagery)

2009-06-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
bap wrote: OK, and for completeness, does anyone know of other relevant law, like EU database legislation? And any cases you would want to cite for any of these? Have a look at the wiki page I mentioned. Bauman vs Fussell is, I think, the key one in the UK, but everything on there should be

[OSM-legal-talk] Aerial photography, cock fighting and vodka bottles

2009-06-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
For a bit of fun, may I humbly direct the curious to: http://www.systemed.net/blog/?p=100 which examines whether tracings from Google (or other) aerial photography can legally be uploaded to OSM. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL RC and share-alike licensing of Produced Works

2009-06-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Matt Amos wrote: RichardF's findings on tracing over photographs make me wonder whether similar arguments can be made for tracing over rendered images. Well, the issue is whether licensing an image as BSD (or CC-BY-SA, or all-rights-reserved, or whatever) automatically overwrites all other

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL RC and share-alike licensing of Produced Works

2009-06-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Dave Stubbs wrote: how does 4.3 interact with that, or any of this discussion about bsd/whatever-the-hell-you-like licenses for produced works? (the you must attribute the database on produced works bit) I don't see any way in which ODbL allows you to distribute a Produced Work without

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OSM data grant

2009-06-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Russ Nelson wrote: Yes, but your result has to be licensed under the CC-By-SA, which means that in principle, somebody could republish your composition. In practice, nobody has complained about that. Or rather, in practice, people simply haven't made the maps precisely because of this.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OSM data grant

2009-06-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Russ Nelson wrote: SteveC wrote: Andy Allan wrote: [...] Wow, I knew CloudMade had developed some really cool OSM-related products, but I had no idea a Fast Acting Synchronised Legal-Talk Trolling Squadron was one of them. :p cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Privacy and Terms

2009-06-26 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Russ Nelson wrote: Do you wear a helmet when you ride a bicycle? Accidents resulting in TBI are very uncommon, but their consequences are very high and a helmet will protect you from many of those consequences. Fantastic. We have now found the one OSM-related argument guaranteed to result

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Privacy and Terms

2009-07-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: Richard Fairhurst rich...@... writes: I kind of think it should be compulsory for anyone posting to legal-talk to demonstrate that they have read, and understood, Rural vs Feist and Mason vs Montgomery. I will read those (anyone got a link?). http

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] wikitude content

2009-08-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Joel wrote: In the 2nd message on this page you'll read With regards to intellectual property, Wiktude.me will be implemented under a Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License. Could anyone give an answer wether it is legal to import POI location+information from

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] wikitude content

2009-08-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gustav Foseid wrote: This is basically a mashup based on Google Maps. I was unaware that Google have claimed any rights over POIs added in such mashups (Google My Maps or other sites). Could you provide some more details? Getting any information out of Google as to what they do claim, and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] wikitude content

2009-08-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gustav Foseid wrote: That is, however, something different from clearly stating It isn't legal, because the locations are derived from Google Maps. You're right. Brevity never really sits well with geodata copyright. :( cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] UK Public Rights of Way

2009-09-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
antonys wrote: I'm engaged in a discussion with my local authority, from whom I am trying to get a digital version of the Public Rights of Way map (PROW) for use on OSM. It'll almost certainly be OS-derived and therefore not suitable for OSM, I'm afraid. Even if they wanted to release it,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Protection time of ODbL

2009-09-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: For example if OSM user n80 artfully crafts a way that doesn't even exist and uploads it to OSM, then that way would perhaps be protected by copyright in some jurisdictions, completely independent of the database and whether or not it is substantial. I think we need

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL virality questions

2009-10-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Matt Amos wrote: can the SA requirement be satisfied by saying that we consider the extracted IDs to be an ODbL part of a collective database, where the proprietary data is the other part? it would require the ODbL part (i.e: the list of IDs) to be made available, but nothing else. This is

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL virality questions

2009-10-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Matt Amos wrote: are you suggesting that we change our guideline on what is substantial? I am. Well, not so much change, more clarify. Substantial in EU Database Directive terms can mean quantitative and/or qualitative. I agree that extracting a pubs of Britain dataset and distributing it

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Proper attribution

2009-10-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote: Sure, so lets get that page showing how things should be onto the wiki I think we've got that bit already: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Legal_FAQ#I_would_like_to_use_OpenStreetMap_maps._How_should_I_credit_you.3F cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Illegal activity

2009-11-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Pieren wrote: It's not the question about laws in France, Germany or US vs England. It's the question to know if OSM database can survive if it contains data from illegal sources, independently of the country. Richard is convinced that the content of the photos is not protected and I agree

[OSM-legal-talk] Contributor Terms (was Re: Copyright Assignment)

2010-01-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Two related things on Contributor Terms: [80n on share-alike] By comparison, ODbL+Contributor Terms has properties that break this principle. A derived work can not be fed back into OSM unless the author agrees to the contributor terms. Matt set up a poll at

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] viral attribution and ODbL

2010-04-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
TimSC wrote: I am beginning to conclude the ODbL is a bloated, confusing mistake. We would be better serviced in our project goals by a simpler license i.e. a public domain-like license. Public domain is unequivocally simpler. For many of us it is also the right thing to do - see the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Potential huge License violation - anyone know anything about this?

2010-06-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
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Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Elizabeth Dodd wrote: I still don't agree with this approach. It doesn't sit with my idea of democracy. When people vote they need to know for what they are voting, and what the cut off marks are considered to be. It's not a vote. It's a request by the OpenStreetMap Foundation for you

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
will be overwhelming. Interesting accusation. Are you accusing all ODbL proponents of having this plan? Or just the LWG? Or do you care to name anyone in particular? Because otherwise your accusations aren't very constructive. The minutes show that Steve Coast, Richard Fairhurst, Mike Collinson

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] PD declaration non binding?

2010-07-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andy Allan wrote: Never mind what Richard says Always good advice. ;) 1) You can't actually put anything into the public domain in most jurisdictions. [...] 2) There's clearly not enough legalese there for it to be effective :-) The BSD licence is pretty short and to the best of my

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Liz wrote: As you realise, in my jurisdiction, CC-by-SA is a better licence than ODbL, as it has been well checked and has government use. No. It isn't that simple. Two recent, very high-profile judgements in Australia both repudiate the notion that copyright can protect collections of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Contributo terms (was : decision removing data:

2010-08-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Groom wrote: personally I'm still waiting for a reply to the question I asked on this list on 20 July entitled Query over Contributor Terms. Just as a reminder, the address of the Licensing Working Group is not legal-talk@openstreetmap.org . :) If you have a 'blocker'-type issue and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: Anthony writes: I'm currently working on a fork. I'm still hopeful that people will find some compromise, and it won't be needed. (Myself I would be quite happy if the project chose a dual licence.) But if a fork proves necessary, I'll be happy to help. My impression

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Is CC-BY-SA is compatible with ODbL?

2010-08-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Michael Collinson wrote: I have moved this from [OSM-talk] Voluntary re-licensing begins to legal talk as it is worth further discussion in view of dilemmas faced by our Australian community. I understand that CC-BY-SA is currently a preferred vehicle for releasing government data. Is

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Is CC-BY-SA is compatible with ODbL?

2010-08-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Francis Davey wrote: Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote Is it? I thought most of the Australian Government data was CC-BY - a much easier problem. But still incompatible with the contributor terms in the sense that a CC-BY licensee does not have sufficient rights to agree

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] To calm some waters - about Section 3

2010-08-26 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Anthony wrote: Another possibility is to assign the task of deciding what share alike means to Creative Commons. Of course, that isn't likely to work if you want to go with the ODbL... I suspect CC's answer would be similar to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Anthony wrote: [Jane Smith] copyright are the chains of the modern worker, holding to the means of Production. Are there any moderators here? Can we get this troll banned please. I'm the list administrator for legal-talk. I'm not quite sure what offence 'Jane Smith' might have committed

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Fwd: Using OSM material for our online tool

2010-08-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ole Brandenburg wrote: I would be thankful if someone can point me in the right direction. We plan to use the OSM API for our map tool (at stepmap.de). We currently have a list of roughly 1,500 pre-defined maps and a zoom-feature that enables users to create their own map/region. The OSM

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] ODbL vs CC-by-SA pros and cons

2010-09-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
(Replying to two messages at once as they seem related) Anthony wrote: But it's quite a leap from some databases (e.g. white pages) are non-copyrightable in some jurisdictions and databases are non-copyrightable. In fact, I'd say it's quite plainly false. Oh, absolutely. Copyright and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Noise vs unanswered questions

2010-09-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
TimSC wrote: I would have hoped the guy who established moderation on the lists would have thought to avoid insulting people. Will the other moderators do their job or just rally round Steve, regardless what he says on the list? There are no other moderators. Apart from Steve's

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] ODbL vs CC-by-SA pros and cons

2010-09-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Anthony wrote: Given your arguments on this list, I'd guess you're quite prepared to believe anything that might help prevent you from admitting that you are wrong. At this point the argument has departed from factual/philosophical to ad hominems, so I'll bow out. To anyone who's listened,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata the new license

2010-09-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote: The ODbL already doesn't enforce viral attribution on derivatives of produced works I don't intend to go over the argument on this again, but treat this message as a little stake in the ground with I disagree with the above statement written on it. cheers

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata amp; the new license

2010-09-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
kevin wrote: The issue here is a licence has been chosen, that appears incompatible with current practise Think you've got your chronology the wrong way round there. Blog post on moving to ODbL: January 2008. [1] OS OpenData released: April 2010. Richard [1]

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Usage of ODbL

2010-09-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: However, under the proposed licence change and contributor terms, OSM would not be able to participate fully in this commons. Although the ODbL would allow others to take the OSM data and combine it with other ODbL or permissive- licensed data sources, the OSM project

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata the new license

2010-10-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Elizabeth Dodd wrote: I ask once more from where did OSMF get a mandate to change the licence? It doesn't. That's why it's asking the rights-holders to change the licence for the data which they've contributed[1]. What OSMF does have, though, is a mandate to host whatever it likes at

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata the new license

2010-10-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
TimSC wrote: It may be possible to argue that OSMF did try to engage the community. Rather than me try to make the case, it's more fun seeing what justifications people are trying to use on the mailing list! Seriously? You actually see this as some sort of trolling contest, trying to get

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

2010-11-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
[follow-ups to legal-talk, where this thread really should have started] Kevin Peat 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 can't see how changing to an

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

2010-11-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Kevin Peat wrote: But isn't the bit that's causing the bulk of the discussion a limited part of the CTs, not ODbL per se? For most people, yes, though there are a few people for whom ODbL per se is unpalatable (I think 80n is one, but he can correct me if I'm wrong). Personally I don't have

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

2010-11-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: I feel the same way but I come to different conclusions because of different starting assumptions. Sure. YMMV and no two people come at this with the same philosophy. My strongly-held belief is that, just as it's generally accepted that to discriminate against fields of

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

2010-11-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Anthony wrote: I really don't get this. We have been through this before. I have no interest in engaging with you - the sole person about whom I'll say that after six years in this project - as a result of the ad hominem you resorted to last time round. I will happily talk to Etienne, John,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Share alike

2010-11-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: You are not free to ignore the share-alike clause. You are simply avoiding it by not publishing the combined work. The ever-unreliable dictionary on this Mac defines publish as print (something) in a book or journal so as to make it generally known: we pay $10 for every letter we

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Share alike

2010-11-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: I see the example. Are you saying that this is a problem? It looks perfectly fine to me. Depends what you mean by problem. If I were to contrast Scenario A (applying styles programmatically as in the geowiki.com example, and delivering it via a Flash applet) and Scenario B

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Share alike

2010-11-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: There's a disconnect in your argument. No, there isn't, because: Your evenings of effort and your knowledge, skill and personal judgement are not subject to CC-BY-SA licensing and are irrelevant. The end product of all that effort is the thing that is relevant. That end

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CT, section 3

2010-11-26 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Olaf Schmidt-Wischhöfer wrote: b) Many people contribute to OpenStreetMap and would prefer a Public Domain license. [...] I do not know, however, whether people in group b are interested in a compromise or whether a fork of OpenStreetMap is seen as inevitable anyway. Plenty of PD

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Bing - Terms of Use

2010-11-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Sebastian Klein wrote: I don't really understand this paragraph, does it mean they want us to give them the vector data we trace from their imagery, so they can use it any form? No. Bear in mind that us means Microsoft when you read this: | [2] 5. Your Content. Except for material that we

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Bing - Terms of Use

2010-12-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andrew Harvey wrote: Just to clarify is this http://www.microsoft.com/maps/product/terms.html the document which contains the license grant? No; the document is the one embedded in the OpenGeoData posting (http://opengeodata.org/microsoft-imagery-details). Like I say I'd envisage it might be

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] some interesting points from the bing license

2010-12-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andrew Harvey wrote: Is this available from Microsoft somewhere or a Microsoft web site? It was posted on OpenGeoData by a Microsoft employee and I had a copy e-mailed to me (in advance) by a Microsoft employee. Like I've said at least twice now :) , it may need some firming up so please don't

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] some interesting points from the bing license

2010-12-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andrew Harvey wrote: But that is opengeodata.org, not Microsoft, you would need a license from Microsoft. It was posted on OGD by a Microsoft employee and I can confirm I've had the exact same licence sent from a Microsoft e-mail address. I believe there'll be a Bing Maps blog post going up

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] some interesting points from the bing license

2010-12-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Fairhurst wrote: I believe there'll be a Bing Maps blog post going up soon on the same topic. http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/maps/archive/2010/12/01/bing-maps-aerial-imagery-in-openstreetmap.aspx Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] some interesting points from the bing license

2010-12-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Sam Larsen wrote: you cannot create permanent, offline copies of the imagery Isn't this why we couldn't use SPOT imagery for HOT in Pakistan using Potlatch - we were only able to use JOSM ( others) due to local caching of tiles in Potlatch. Is this an issue? No. Caching is not

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] some interesting points from the bing license

2010-12-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andrew Harvey wrote: I am yet to see a license. http://opengeodata.org/microsoft-imagery-details has a set of terms of use embedded in the post specifically for OSM. It's a Scribd document and therefore requires Flash Player. There is also a PDF download link. If you are unable to see the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New phrase in section 2

2010-12-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Groom wrote: If the OSMF board wish to move OSM to PD They don't, rendering the rest of your e-mail moot. I mean, personally I think it'd be lovely if they did, but they don't. I'm slightly amazed that anyone can consider this who has ever read any licence-related postings by the chairman

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New phrase in section 2

2010-12-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Simon Poole wrote: Asking a mapper community with a majority of non-lawyer, non-native English speakers to determine if two licenses are compatible (one of which will always be quite complex) with some degree of certainty is just a joke. Not at all. Most imports will fall under one of a

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New phrase in section 2

2010-12-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: In addition, some licences (such as the new UK Open Government Licence) openly avow compatibility with ODC's attribution licences (ODC-By and ODbL). Nice bait and switch... Goodness me, John, do you have to be so confrontational about _everything_?! In your first

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Someone already had a look at theBing TermsofUse?

2010-12-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andrew Harvey wrote: We need to find a norm as a community so we don't have this conflict. We do have a norm as a community. 99% of people are tracing from Bing imagery and you're not. Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Rob Myers wrote: On 04/01/11 15:05, Richard Fairhurst wrote: OS OpenData is AIUI compatible with ODbL and the latest Contributor Terms. [citation needed] (http://fandomania.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/xfiles1.jpg) :) I keep meaning to sit down and write a long blog post about

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: That might work for ODBL which has attribution requirements, although if produced works are exempt from attribution requirements They're not. ODbL 4.3 requires attribution on produced works. and the CT allows for license changes to non-attribution licenses It doesn't. CT 4

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote: ODbL 4.3 requires that the source database be attributed, not any data sources that went into making that database. As I said, to understand the attribution chain in ODbL, I find it helpful to consider OSM as a Derivative Database of OS OpenData (i.e. Extracting

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
I wrote: As I said, to understand the attribution chain in ODbL, I find it helpful to consider OSM as a Derivative Database of OS OpenData (i.e. Extracting or Re-utilising the whole or a Substantial part of the Contents in a new Database). To take the example given in ODbL 4.3a,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: I still don't understand how data could be accepted on that basis in the first place, either there has to be firm statements that such data would be removed, not may be removed As I said to Robert last night, I don't think you need to explicitly write we will not do

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: I think that actions speak louder than words svn is that way cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/OSM-legal-talk-CTs-and-the-1-April-deadline-tp5887879p5891828.html Sent from the Legal Talk mailing list archive at

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: On 5 January 2011 22:41, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: As I said to Robert last night, I don't think you need to explicitly write we will not do anything illegal into the Contributor Terms [...] What's with the comparisons of contract law and criminal law

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] How to remove my data since 2006

2011-01-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gert Gremmen wrote: Free data needs no license or CT. I agree! I'm really glad you - like me and many others - are dedicating your data to the public domain. No licence, no CT. Once OSM continues under new license and CT (as currently presented) I demand to have my owned data withdrawn. Oh,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: I was under the impression that only the US had personal copyright infringement as a criminal offence... It's an offence in EW whether personal or commercial. For a business, it's an offence to distribute copyrighted material without licence; for an individual, it's an

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote: hopefully OS will switch to the new Open Government License soon, which is explicitly compatible with ODbL. They switched today. :) cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] UK mapping authority switches to Open Government Licence

2011-01-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Mike Collinson wrote: Thanks, David. Bother. Either it refers only to Royal Mail-tainted Code-Point data as immediately above the text or the OS are pulling a fast one by re-writing the OGL ... making it effectively their old problematic license. Assuming the latter we'll need to lobby.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] UK mapping authority switches to Open Government Licence

2011-01-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: Erm doesn't that invalidate the flexibility or relicense in future people keep going on about? I think Mike already answered that one at http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2011-January/005716.html . cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] UK mapping authority switches to Open Government Licence

2011-01-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
davespod wrote: Richard wrote: Mike Collinson wrote It incorporates the Open Government License for pubic sector information I sincerely hope it doesn't say that! I'm afraid it does. For those who are similarly humourously challenged may I point out that I have checked and no, the OS

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] UK mapping authority switches to Open Government Licence

2011-01-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
davespod wrote: If we assume that the reading of ODBL in the LWG minutes is correct, then ODBL would not require attribution of OSM's sources in produced works (e.g., maps), rather only attribution of the OSM database. I'm restating what I said in

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CC-BY-SA / Non-separatable combination of OSM+other

2011-02-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jonathan Harley wrote: Making it impossible to make works where not all of the elements are free does nothing to protect the freedom of individuals to use OSM. That's as may be, but to restate the point made by Frederik, you can't simply wish away what the licence _actually_ _says_, simply

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Request for clarification (for German translation) of CTs 1.2.4

2011-03-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Francis Davey wrote: droit d'auteur does not (as I understand the term) include database right. Its un droit des producteurs de bases de données rather than un droit d'auteur (forgive my atrocious French - its been nearly 30 years since I studied it). Nearly 20 years here, but FWIW,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Request for clarification (for German translation) of CTs 1.2.4

2011-03-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Francis Davey wrote: I hope that makes sense and is not too mad. Absolutely. I guess what the Wikipedia article tells us is that informally (if incorrectly) one is often called the other and that, perhaps, is where the confusion in the French translation lies. cheers Richard -- View this

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Request for clarification (for German translation) of CTs 1.2.4

2011-03-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Fairhurst wrote: [some stuff] Apparently CT 1.2.4 in French have just this moment gone live: http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Contributor_Terms/FR cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/OSM-legal-talk-Request-for-clarification

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Rights granted to OSMF (Section 2 of the CT)

2011-04-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen wrote: [some hard-to-follow stuff] Gert - could you quote in the same way that everyone else does, please? i.e. no top-posting, snip the bits of the message you're replying to, prefix each line of quoting with , line-wrap your quotes properly. It

[OSM-legal-talk] Private negotiations

2011-06-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
I'm led to believe that people have been issuing LWG with private lists of demands that they want met before they will consent to ODbL+CT. Could I ask that said people have the courtesy to post their demands here, too? It would be a shame if the suspicion arose that the process is being swayed

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Private negotiations

2011-06-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Quintin Driver wrote: Richard, have you or any of the LWG members done any work for MapQuest, Skobbler and / or Cloudmade ? Wow. I'm not an LWG member and I've never done any work for MapQuest, Skobbler and/or CloudMade. Where on earth did that come from and what on earth has it got to do

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Private negotiations.

2011-06-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gert Gremmen wrote: Some of us try to minimize the number of refused CT (about 400) but I have the strong feeling that those are mainly found in the old core of the first 1000 of OSM mappers, the founders that were interested in real free data. Wut? AFAIK the three contributors with the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] data derived from UK Ordnace Survey

2011-06-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robert Whittaker wrote: A major purpose of the CTs is to ensure that all the data remaining in OSM is suitable for re-licensing under any Free and Open license without the need for further checks. No, that hasn't been the case since Contributor Terms 1.2 were proposed in November 2010 and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] data derived from UK Ordnace Survey

2011-06-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
(continuing from previous message, d'oh) In the event of a future relicensing, LWG and the community would need to check existing data and delete it if so. See also CT 1.2.x 1b which explicitly envisages this possibility: if we suspect that any contributed data is incompatible, (in the sense

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Exception in Open Data License/Community Guidelines for temporary file

2011-06-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: If, on the other hand, out of the black box comes a derived database, then you can simply share *that* database and nobody cares what happened in the black box, because you only have to share the last in a chain of derived databases that leads to a produced work, right?

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Exception in Open Data License/Community Guidelines for temporary file

2011-06-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jonathan Harley wrote: Really I'm at a loss to see the point of the share-alike clause (4.4). I can't think of a use-case for OSM where processing the database doesn't reduce the amount of information. The canonical case, often cited by those who say OSM needs a share-alike licence, is to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Exception in OpenDataLicense/Community Guidelines for temporary file

2011-07-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Groom wrote: We also have be mindful of the OSM guideline of substantial [1], which seems to indicate that only very small extracts counts as insubstantial. I think the thing about these guidelines is that they are meant to be Community Guidelines: here's what the OSM community expects

[OSM-legal-talk] Remapping - tags and practice

2011-07-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, As the licence change draws on, we will inevitably be looking at remapping objects touched by a decliner. I'm interested in how we (as users) tackle something like this: user A (agrees) surveys and maps user B (agrees) refines geometry and tags user C (agrees)

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

2011-07-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Maarten Deen wrote: Turn restrictions, maximum speeds, oneway streets, even the value of the highway tag is not a geographical fact. Sure they are. If I walk about 20 yards from my front door, there's a no entry sign at a certain lat/long. If I walk a bit further along, facing the other way,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Who owns the copyright with ODbl?

2011-07-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Guy Collins wrote: Excuse this question if it has been answered in a wiki somewhere, but I would very much like to know who owns copyright of any data contributed under the Open Database Licence? The brief answer is: the mapper does, just as they do under our current licence (CC-BY-SA).

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A case for CT + CC-BY-SA

2011-07-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tordanik wrote: Currently, we offer reasonable terms to good guys. Bad guys might be able to squeeze out a bit more in some jurisdictions if they can live with bad press and severed community ties. That doesn't happen a lot, though - as far as I can tell - and the possibility just doesn't

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A case for CT + CC-BY-SA

2011-07-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: Interesting slip... of course I meant to say 'contacting'... :) So are there cases where people are thumbing their nose at the licence, but somehow if we used ODbL they would fall into line? Couldn't tell you that without reading their minds! I honestly don't know how many

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A case for CT + CC-BY-SA

2011-07-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tordanik wrote: I see that the ODbL fits your particular use case nicely. But as you acknowledge, things look different for people with other use cases. I expect that I'm one of those people whose favourite use cases won't benefit from ODbL - quite the opposite, in fact. I can certainly

[OSM-legal-talk] Fwd: ODbL for applications that transfer data from other road networks

2011-08-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
[Forwarding two messages to the list from Angelika Voss - her messages have been rejected but there's no sign of them in the admin interface AFAICT. -- Richard, legal-talk admin] Hello, I would like to get your oppinion regarding the ODbL for the use case described below. I have asked

[OSM-legal-talk] Fwd: ODbL for publications comparing OSM with a reference dataset

2011-08-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
[second forwarded message -- Richard, legal-talk admin] Hello again, for one more use case I would like to get your oppinion regarding the ODbL. Your answers are relevant for our research, and could be relevant for Muki Haklay and others who compare OSM with other reference datasets to

[OSM-legal-talk] Refusing CT but declaring contributions as PD

2011-08-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
There's a curious statement in the LWG minutes for 2nd August (https://docs.google.com/View?id=dd9g3qjp_1252tt382df). Folks who have declined the new contributor terms but said their contributions are public domain. There has been a suggestion that such contributions should be maintained in

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OSM Database Re-Build

2011-11-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gert Gremmen wrote: Using this O-trick violates the copyright of the previous owner, just as copying from google would violate their terms of service. As they have been for at least three years now, Gert, your opinions about Potlatch are 100% venting and 0% actual knowledge

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] The detrimental effects of database

2011-11-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: It's not like it's going to be hard to recreate all this stuff. It didn't take long to create in the first place and remapping it is going to be a lot of fun isn't it? Yep, exactly. It's actually surprisingly easy, especially with features such as railway lines that are easily

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Copyprotection for OSM based material

2011-11-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
!i! wrote: But to be hornest, we aren't legal experts, so it would be great to get a statement of people that are more aware of all of the legal aspects. 1. You cannot apply extra conditions to the licence (CC-BY-SA 4a, as you say). 2. Your website may have its own terms of use that restrict

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Retain PD mapper's contributions?

2011-11-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
andrzej zaborowski wrote: Honestly both solutions are kind of ugly because they mess up edits history. If some data is PD then it should be possible to just retain it in the event of a license change, the SQL query is unlikely to change its legal status. Surely you understand that the

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