Let me get this straight: * I create a dataset from public data sources, e.g. a list of roads, and publish it under the Public Domain dedication (i.e. CC0). (I agree that MIT is weird here). * Afterwards, I make a subset of my original data by removing any roads I found elsewhere, e.g. in a proprietary source. * And now you are saying that the new _subset_ of my original public domain data is no longer public domain because I removed values that exist in a proprietary source?
I think this is taking it a bit too far, but IANAL... You are obviously welcome to take it to court, but I think it will be a breach of trust if OSMF would spend donated funds on fighting windmills. If anything, it will stop any serious organization from ever touching anything related to OSM - as they would never know what lawsuits might be brought up against them, thus effectively killing OSM. I feel there are some members of OSM community that ideologically opposed to Facebook in general. I can understand that position, but I don't think it should affect our judgement of the actual contribution, which only makes our data better. The last thing we would want is for OSM to become a legal minefield. On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 3:47 PM Mateusz Konieczny <matkoni...@tutanota.com> wrote: > > > > 14 Nov 2019, 21:38 by r...@technomancy.org: > > Facebook provide download dumps of their machine detected roads on a > country by country basis > > IANAL, but as far as i know you are > 100% right. > > Also, is their road detection powered > by already mapped OSM roads? > In such case it would be ODBL even > before substraction of what is in OSM. > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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