Beste mensen,
Aangezien Nederlanders in de regel wel Engelse tekst kunnen lezen, heb
ik me even de moeite bespaard om bijgaande tekst te vertalen ;-)
Het komt erop neer: Iedereen kan nu zijn akkoord geven voor de nieuwe
gebruikersovereenkomst ("Contributor Terms") mbt de OpenStreetMap
database. Dit is op vrijwillige basis. Ben je niet akkoord of weet je
het nog niet, wacht dan nog even...
Om akkoord te gaan ga naar http://openstreetmap.org/user/terms, (je
wordt mogelijk eerst gevraagd in te loggen), of ga naar de
instellingen-pagina bij je profiel.
met vriendelijke groet,
Henk Hoff
OSMF License Working Group
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As promised, and long awaited, the next phase of the OSM License Upgrade has
arrived. Phase 2 - Existing Contributor Voluntary Re-licensing [1] has begun,
and you may indicate your acceptance of the new Contributor Terms for your
existing OSM API account. To accept the terms visit
http://openstreetmap.org/user/terms, (you may be asked to login first), or your
user settings page.
Please note that OpenStreetMap is not changing the license on any published
data at this point. Existing contributors are being asked to permit
re-licensing of their data in the future when it makes sense to do so.
There is no decline button, and no obligation to answer yet. Existing
Contributor Voluntary Re-licensing is for those who wish to accept the terms
and get on with mapping.
We'll be publishing which users have accepted so that we can all see the
progress in terms of users and re-licensed data.
We hope that you will accept the new Contributor Terms [2] and ODbL for each of
your user accounts if you have more than one.
** Why are we doing it like this? **
What ifs, what ifs. The key is clearly to reduce these. Those that simply want
to get on mapping and accept that we won't doing anything daft, can sign up.
Those that are worried about data loss and that the OSMF will make a stupid
decision, can wait and see. We'll show how much of the database is
potentially covered by the ODbL. We've got some help on modelling that, and
we'll aim for at least a weekly update if not daily. We'll also make all the
data available needed to calculate that, so if you want to try a different
metric or just see what is happening in your local area, everything will be
transparent.
If you support the share-alike concept, I urge you to accept the new
Contributor Terms which provides for a coherent Attribution, Share-Alike
license written especially for databases. If you are a Public Domain license
supporter, we are divided as a community on which is best and I do urge you to
give this one a good try. The Contributor Terms are expressly written to allow
us to come back in future years and see what is best without all this fuss
about procedure. And if you'd just really like all this hoo-haa to go away and
get back to mapping, well, please say yes.
** Some supporting notes: **
() The key thing is that there are about 12,500 contributors who have
contributed over 98% of the pre-May data.
() I personally really, really want to get a coherent license in place so that
my mapping efforts are more widely used. I also really, really don't want us as
a community to shoot ourselves in the head and divide. I pledge to continue
working with *both* objectives in mind.
() The License Working Group will not recommend switching over the license if
data loss is unreasonable [3]. We will issue a formal statement to that effect
and are attempting to define better what "unreasonable" means. A totally
quantitative criteria is extremely difficult to define ahead of actually seeing
what specific problems may arise. But I understand the concern that we are
tempted to do something wild.
() The License Working Group will ask the OSMF board to issue a similar
statement.
() We are working to create a process whereby we can model on a regular basis
how much of the OSM database is covered by ODbL and how much not. We will make
all the data needed to do that public so that anyone can analyse using their
own metrics. Work on this is active and being discussed on the dev mailing
list. You will need:
- An ordinary planet dump.
- Access to history data. A public 18GB "history dump" is available
http://planet.openstreetmap.org/full-experimental/full-planet-100801.osm.bz2.
The intent is to make this available on a regular basis with difffs. A full
re-generation takes several days.
- A list of userids of who has and has not accepted the license. Work in
progress.
() A final vote on whether to switch or not remains an option. But let us see
first if "data loss" really is an issue and what the specific problems might be.
Regards to all,
Mike
License Working Group
[1]
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Database_License/Implementation_Plan#PHASE_2_-_Existing_Contributor_Voluntary_Re-licensing_.28started_10th_August_2010.29
[2] The new Contributor Terms:
http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Contributor_Terms_Summary - Summary
http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Contributor_Terms - Full text and
links to translations
[3] https://docs.google.com/View?id=dd9g3qjp_76gwvhpcx3 License Working Group
minutes, see Item 7
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