IMHO the major issue with not deleting non-responders work, is not so much that we couldn't take the stance that we simply leave it in till somebody complains, but the fact that other contributors build on top of this data. It is bad enough that a substantial amount of work from agreers will go in April, it is definitely not a something that we want to continue to leave hanging over everybodies head.
In any case there are only roughly 1000 non-responders left that created more than 100 highways (known people that are just playing games not counted, in total the 1000 account for 2/3 of total highway data). I'm convinced that we can whittle that down substantially before April.
Simon Am 10.02.2012 07:40, schrieb Russ Nelson:
Chris Hill writes: > I find this lack of respect for people's work, and for copyright law > rather surprising and out-of-keeping with an Open project. Of course we > cannot just take people's work just because they have not replied to an > email or two. You can't defend somebody else's copyright. Only they "have standing" to do so. Nobody associated with OSM has the ability to defend my copyright; so why should they try? Only *I* have the ability to defend my copyright ... and the same goes for other contributors to OSM. People who take action to defend their copyright will sign in, and check the box that says "declined". It's as easy as that ... and anybody who is unwilling to put that effort forth is unlikely to take any other action. And since they're the only people who have the legal right to do so, we cannot and thus should not take on that legal weight ourselves. It's not that we have no respect for people's work. It's that we have no MORE respect for people's work than they have for it themselves. It's perfectly reasonable to treat the copyright interests of people who cannot be bothered to defend their copyright as "abandoned".
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