Why are you whinging at us rather than at the appropriate committee of the OSMF? It was their stupid idea in the first place; they should be dealing with the fallout. Please leave us out of it. If, then, a warning about cutting-and-pasting needs to occur, it can come from them.
And to make sure they take it seriously, you should couch your complaint in the form of a demand letter, explaining the monetary harm you have suffered (or the mental anguish as an author) because of the different uses the map has been put to under the ODbL rather than the CC-By-SA license. You should also include your legal theory explaining how your collection of facts about the world is a creative work rather than simply a random collection of facts about the world. You know, where you deliberately included some facts, and decided to exclude other facts as a way of expressing your creativity. Don't bother US about it. ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen writes: > the CC-BY-SA license in the new map, mostly simply cutted & pasted GERT: DON'T READ THIS PARAGRAPH: Note to readers who aren't Gert: Yes, I realize that there is no creativity is what people choose to map and what they don't. It is a simple matter of what is convenient and enjoyable to map, and what is not, which does not rise to the level of "creativity" or "sweat of the brow" (how sweaty do YOU get deciding which ponds to mark as fish farms and which to leave as mere ponds??). And yes, I realize that there is practically ZERO documentable harm between the uses people can make of the OSM data between the ODbL and CC-By-SA. And yes, I realize that the OSM data hasn't even been published under the ODbL yet. -- --my blog is at http://blog.russnelson.com Crynwr supports open source software 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-600-8815 Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
