(taking this to legal-talk)
Russ,
On 12/27/11 05:08, Russ Nelson wrote:
But this way is still marked as "created by a nodecision user":
http://osm.mapki.com/history/way.php?id=3753605
Well, maybe it was created, but the sins of the father do not pass
onto the son. No part of what the nodecision user created remains
*except* for source=PGS.
There may be a misunderstanding here.
I *do* in fact ignore "source" (and "note" and "fixme" and "created_by")
when deciding whether there's a copyright of a nodecision user involved,
and if indeed the source=PGS tag was the only thing that remained then
this way would not be flagged.
In this case however, there's a sequence of about 20 nodes that was
created by the initial user and even though these may all have been
individually moved and therefore the individual nodes are considered
"clean", the fact that these 20 nodes in this sequence form a line is
considered the "work" of the original mapper.
This is, of course, open to discussion. If mapper A creates a way with
20 nodes and adds one tag, and mapper B moves all those nodes
individually *and* replaces the tag with someone else, then if A
disagrees and B agrees, do we believe that A retains a copyright?
Or, to widen the question a bit:
The geometry of a way is determined from its node list *and* from the
position of each of the nodes. Assume that you have no copyright in any
of the node positions (because either the nodes were there before you,
or because someone else moved them all around) - can you still have a
copyright in the node list?
Currently at least my software assumes that yes, you can. It would be
possible to change this and say: You can only have a copyright in the
"node belongs to way" relationship if you also have a copyright in the
node. That would then mark as clean a way like the one above.
Bye
Frederik
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