Hi Martin, I appreciate the sentiment, though I think it have unintended consequences.
The reason I am asking the questions I'm asking is as part of a greater effort to advocate within humanitarian groups to release their data under licenses compatible to OSM. Often the issue with data after a disaster is that it is locked up and can't be reached in times of emergency. For example there actually was a map of Haiti after the earthquake. The office of the National Mapping Agency had collapsed and where the back-up of the data was not immediately known. One of the reasons for this is they had a long policy of selling that data, but nobody was actually buying it. It is also a slippery slope to make exceptions because then maybe there are other exceptions that groups would like to make. For example I could see some groups not wanting OSM used by the military or maybe large corporations. It is unrealistic though to make these types of distinctions I think. Thanks, -Kate On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 7:22 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2013/1/15 Kate Chapman <k...@maploser.com>: >> Hard to say if it would be substantial, I think that is going to >> depend on the size of the disaster and what exactly the data is being >> used. > > > I think with the current guidelines any extraction will be very soon > substantial, "The OSM community regards the following as being not > Substantial ... provided that the extraction is one-off and not > repeated over time for the same or a similar project." > > Especially the part "not repeated over time for the same or a similar > project" will be read that if you extract a second time hospitals or > schools the amount would add to the number from the first time you did > so. > > This is very sad, I'm sure almost all contributors to OSM would like > to not have these restrictions for certain scopes (like HOT). What if > we made a change to our license to have different terms for different > fields of users? (Or is this completely unrealistic?). E.g. we could > release data for humanitarian work under attribution only (after > positive voting by the active contributors) terms? > > cheers, > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > legal-talk mailing list > legal-talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
