In case anyone is not on talk-gb > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Fairhurst [mailto:rich...@systemed.net] > Sent: 09 July 2012 21:49 > To: talk-gb OSM List (E-mail); talk...@openstreetmap.org > Subject: [Talk-GB] Licence redaction ready to begin > > Hello all, > > This is a special heads-up to the British and Irish mailing lists that the licence > change bot is ready to get underway, starting in our areas. > > Starting this week, we will be 'redacting' the contributions (less than > 1%) from the live database that are not compatible with the new Contributor > Terms and Open Database Licence (ODbL). We are expecting to begin on > _Wednesday_ (11th July) assuming a couple of final setup details are > completed by then. > > The bot will run with Ireland first of all, then the UK, then the rest of the > world. Consequently please expect to see a few changes to your local area > later this week. > > There will be _no_ API outage and no other interruption to editing, but > please do save your edits frequently to minimise the likelihood of conflict. > Once the bot has finished the UK we'll send a further message to both these > areas. > > When the whole world is complete, we will be ready to distribute data under > the ODbL and we'll advise of that with a separate announcement. > The final pre-redaction dataset available under CC-BY-SA has now been > generated at http://planet.openstreetmap.org/planet-120704.osm.bz2 . > Where data has been redacted, any attempt to access it from the API or the > site's 'browse' pages will return a response to that effect. > > Test runs have shown that the bot is functioning as we want it to, but we will > of course be monitoring its progress. We are currently expecting it to take in > the order of one month to complete the whole world; given the many > variables I'm afraid we can't give a more precise steer yet, but we'll aim to > keep everyone updated as it runs. > > As you know we were expecting this to start just after 1st April and the > complexity of the task incurred the delay. Thank you all very much for your > patience in waiting for it to get underway. Thank you especially to those who > have contributed to the code, whether by patches, suggestions or just > helping to firm up the workings. > > Richard > for the OSMF board > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > talk...@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
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