Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-08-10 Thread John Smith
On 10 August 2010 19:47, Emilie Laffray emilie.laff...@gmail.com wrote: Since I've heard nothing more about this I can only assume that any consideration for a compromise has been rejected by the pro-PD crowd. Why do you even assume this? Grant pasted this from LWG minutes on IRC earlier

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-08-10 Thread Grant Slater
On 10 August 2010 11:26, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Grant pasted this from LWG minutes on IRC earlier today: It wasn't well received. It would be overly restrictive for the project. Who knows what we'll be doing in 10 years time? Misquoted. That is not for the LWG minutes.

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-08-09 Thread John Smith
Since I've heard nothing more about this I can only assume that any consideration for a compromise has been rejected by the pro-PD crowd. On 30 July 2010 15:54, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 July 2010 15:40, Andrew Harvey andrew.harv...@gmail.com wrote: I was going to just

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-31 Thread John Smith
On 31 July 2010 10:36, James Livingston li...@sunsetutopia.com wrote: Then it doesn't help at all - what if ODbL 1.1 says that you can freely relicense to CC-Zero? And if you think that can't happen, go look at the GNU Free Documentation Licence 1.3 and Wikipedia. That kind of legal hijinks

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-30 Thread Andrew Harvey
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 3:54 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: If You have indicated to OSMF that you waive any rights in Your Contents (dedication to the 'public domain'), OSMF will additionally use or sub-license Your Contents under: the Public Domain Dedication License; or

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-30 Thread John Smith
On 30 July 2010 16:16, Andrew Harvey andrew.harv...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 3:54 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: If You have indicated to OSMF that you waive any rights in Your Contents (dedication to the 'public domain'), OSMF will additionally use or

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-30 Thread Emilie Laffray
On 30 July 2010 07:19, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: That's going to be a very messy area to deal with, because it requires people sourcing or attributing perfectly all the time. On a different topic of sourcing, as I mentionned some time ago, Spot Images will be releasing

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-30 Thread John Smith
On 30 July 2010 19:40, Emilie Laffray emilie.laff...@gmail.com wrote: On a different topic of sourcing, as I mentionned some time ago, Spot Images will be releasing images of France in the near future for a period of 6 months. The attribution is very important to them and that's why someone is

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-30 Thread Emilie Laffray
On 30 July 2010 11:13, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Not entirely what I meant, if you checked the other thread on how to add source=* tags it's actually complicated when you update data, but only update a small section so on and so forth. Yup, hence the reason I mentioned it

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-30 Thread John Smith
On 30 July 2010 20:24, Emilie Laffray emilie.laff...@gmail.com wrote: Yup, hence the reason I mentioned it was about a different topic of sourcing, and I couldn't find the previous thread. http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/2010-July/006868.html

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-30 Thread James Livingston
On 30/07/2010, at 3:54 PM, John Smith wrote: I've cc'd Grant on this email, he posted to the #osm-au IRC channel about some proposed changes to the CTs, which I was hoping would have come up in another thread by now: LWG is considering: 3. OSMF agrees to use or sub-license Your Contents

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-29 Thread 80n
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 6:12 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: On 29 July 2010 13:57, Andrew Harvey andrew.harv...@gmail.com wrote: What should I do? Can I unagree to the CTs? I doubt you can unagree, although you won't get an answer even if you asked, the whole process is very

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-29 Thread John Smith
On 29 July 2010 17:58, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: If a new user, who has agreed to the contributor terms, makes a contribution that this derived from work that is *only* licensed under CC-BY-SA do they have the right to allow that contribution to be licensed under ODbL. I don't think they

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-29 Thread David Groom
- Original Message - From: Andrew Harvey andrew.harv...@gmail.com To: John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com Cc: OSM Australian Talk List talk-au@openstreetmap.org Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 4:57 AM Subject: Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach... On Sun

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-29 Thread John Smith
On 29 July 2010 23:34, David Groom revi...@pacific-rim.net wrote: 1) YOU have to ask Nearmap if they are OK with YOU using their imagery under the terms of the CT Which they aren't so... 2) you cant use Nearmap imagery for tracing, and you should ask for all your edits where you have used

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-29 Thread Andrew Harvey
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:42 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Which they aren't so... I was going to just create a new account, and not agree to the CTs, only to discover you cannot create an account without accepting. That means that no new members can contribute by deriving

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-29 Thread John Smith
On 30 July 2010 15:40, Andrew Harvey andrew.harv...@gmail.com wrote: I was going to just create a new account, and not agree to the CTs, only to discover you cannot create an account without accepting. That means that no new members can contribute by deriving information from Nearmap

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-23 Thread 80n
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:21 AM, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.comwrote: On 23 July 2010 00:08, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalog *snip* Grant What's the lower limit for inclusion on this list? It says rather vaguely more than

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-22 Thread Grant Slater
On 21 July 2010 05:36, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure how complete it is, but there is a list of data sets and the licenses: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalog If there are any known entries missing, please add them. LWG has put out a request for

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-22 Thread 80n
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:50 PM, ed...@billiau.net wrote: On 21 July 2010 05:36, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure how complete it is, but there is a list of data sets and the licenses: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalog If there are any

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-22 Thread Grant Slater
On 23 July 2010 00:08, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalog *snip* Grant What's the lower limit for inclusion on this list?  It says rather vaguely more than a few hundred nodes. 80n Those that imported the data, they make the decision. We have

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-20 Thread Andrew Harvey
If only public domain was accepted then all of the government's CC imports would not be possible. On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Christoph Donges cdon...@gmail.com wrote: Things would have been so much simpler if they had gone with pd from the start. Personally I consider all my edits (not

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-20 Thread John Smith
On 21 July 2010 14:27, Andrew Harvey andrew.harv...@gmail.com wrote: If only public domain was accepted then all of the government's CC imports would not be possible. I'm not sure how complete it is, but there is a list of data sets and the licenses:

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-18 Thread John Smith
I sent an email to Nearmap today to clarify about licensing of derived data, the gist of the response was they won't accept anything less than a share alike license, while the ODBL may be compatible, the new Contributor Terms (CTs) aren't so on top of all the cc-by data going bye bye, all the

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-18 Thread John Smith
It just got pointed out to me, but anyone that has ever derived data from Nearmap can't agree to the new Contributor Terms, not to mention new users that already agreed to the new CTs shouldn't be deriving data from Nearmap. ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-18 Thread Grant Slater
On 18 July 2010 12:53, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: It just got pointed out to me, but anyone that has ever derived data from Nearmap can't agree to the new Contributor Terms, not to mention new users that already agreed to the new CTs shouldn't be deriving data from Nearmap.

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-18 Thread John Smith
On 18 July 2010 22:10, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: On 18 July 2010 12:53, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: It just got pointed out to me, but anyone that has ever derived data from Nearmap can't agree to the new Contributor Terms, not to mention new users that

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-18 Thread Markus
-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach... I sent an email to Nearmap today to clarify about licensing of derived data, the gist of the response was they won't accept anything less than a share alike license, while the ODBL may be compatible, the new Contributor Terms (CTs) aren't so

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-18 Thread John Smith
On 18 July 2010 22:19, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: On 18 July 2010 12:36, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: I sent an email to Nearmap today to clarify about licensing of derived data, the gist of the response was they won't accept anything less than a share alike

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-18 Thread Liz
On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, Grant Slater wrote: I used a PD data sets for creating the OSM coastline of Africa. It took me 3 months in 2006. I imagine if for example the much quoted CC-BY coastline of Australia was removed tomorrow it could be rebuilt within a week from new data with community

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-10 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 1:18 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: As people should now be aware there is currently there is an issue, not so much with ODBL, but the new Terms and Conditions people have to agree to stating that OSM can change to other free licenses in future without

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-10 Thread John Smith
On 11 July 2010 09:50, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: I presume that you refer to paragraph three of the contributor terms http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Contributor_Terms 3. OSMF agrees to use or sub-license Your Contents as part of a database and only under the terms of

[talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-09 Thread John Smith
As people should now be aware there is currently there is an issue, not so much with ODBL, but the new Terms and Conditions people have to agree to stating that OSM can change to other free licenses in future without requiring consent, while in theory this is a great idea since if there is a

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-09 Thread James Livingston
On 10/07/2010, at 9:18 AM, John Smith wrote: however due to the absence of requiring such a free license to be cc-by compatible (require some form of attribution) this then means any cc-by data would now have to be expunged from the system. Only if the copyright holder hasn't agreed to the

Re: [talk-au] ODBL yet again, but from a pragmatic approach...

2010-07-09 Thread John Smith
On 10 July 2010 10:15, James Livingston li...@sunsetutopia.com wrote: If you have imported data you got from someone else (other than public domain), you can't legally agree to the CTs. Since I've imported some data into OSM under my main account, I can't strictly click I Agree on that