Hi, Lambertus wrote: > Just out of curiosity: If the CC-by-SA license give the copyright to all > contributors, then who is to decide what stays in the database and what > is removed.
Ultimately this will be the person operating the database (server). You can of course always operate your own database and make different decisions. > Also who has the right to require a change to a new license? Nobody, but of course the database operator can say "I won't host your data any longer unless you agree to this". > If we change to the new license then do we have a tool available that > will remind me of the bits that are going to be rolled back because of > my contribution being dependent on someone who did not agree to the > license? I would like to know which bits of my data are going to be > rolled back so I can edit that area again to fix it. I think it is unfortunate that the discussion circles around this, which is one of weak spots of the whole process. I think it is absolutely clear that we cannot and will not accept the loss of a large amount of present-day data. Once we have agreed to start transition to a new license then we will have to work very hard to get as many people on board as possible, convince them to agree. We can, as Richard pointed out, surely argue our way through some things (minor edits that are not copyrightable etc). In those cases where we cannot reach the original mapper even though we have tried hard (sending one email is not enough), it might even be an option to document this process and assume the mapper is ok with relicensing unless he turns up later and says otherwise. But in the end it will be a whole lot of work and we will all have to help. If, and the end of the whole process, we find that we'd have to remove half our data to be able to continue then the relicensing has clearly failed and must not be allowed to go on. But I think there are many more things about the new license that warrant a good discussion and a close look; the "what happens to my data" question is, in my eyes, one of the less important points. Bye Frederik _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
