2009/2/27 Richard Fairhurst <rich...@systemed.net>: > > Ben Laenen wrote: >> There's exactly one way to be sure this won't happen: get >> approval of *all* the people who've been editing OSM. And with >> a number of around 100.000 mappers I'm very skeptical that >> you'll be able to manage that. > > Not true (IMO at least). > > We have 100,000 _registered_users_, not mappers. Only a fraction of them > have contributed to the map. > > Of them, again, only a fraction have made substantial changes deserving of > copyright* protection. >
And even if you take the ultra cautious approach and say all edits are deserving of copyright protection, you can still draw a line around minor edits both temporal and spatial ie: a single edit can only possibly infect edits made after it, and within say 50m of it. So a single minor edit is slightly annoying... a lot is obviously a problem.. and this is where you want all the bot owners, tracers, and general fixers to agree because otherwise it makes a large mess. We don't need 100% of users, but we need a very high proportion if you want to remove any irritatingly subjective legal discussion. Dave _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
