If a decliner splits a ,mappers road then he/she becomes the version 1 owner of that mappers copyrightable information for the rest of the way.
I think it's morally (maybe even legally) wrong for the decliner to now extinguish this copyright by refusing to relicence it. Since I think it unlikely that they see things as I do, I think it would be good if we could find all such occurrences in the OSM database and list out the original owner so that they could reclaim their copyright. Maybe we could..... If two ways with the same name are geographically close but not touching then list out the version 1 owners, lat/lon and name. (only if exactly one of the two version 1 owners is a decliner.) Unfortunately this wouldn't cover the cases where the decliner has done a single split, thus taking over the way, or where he has split the way, discarded the front bit and then back filled from the split. The first example of the last case that I've noticed is in Sydney but fortunately I have surveyed that particular area myself so I can reclaim the mappers information using my own data. Cheers Nick
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