Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Lawyer responses to use cases, major problems

2009-03-01 Thread Simon Ward
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 10:35:21AM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote: Simon Ward wrote: this could mean that anyone running osm2pgsql importing minutely data updates would possibly have to make available a ''psql dump of the whole planet'' for any snapshot time where someone cares to request

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Lawyer responses to use cases, major problems

2009-03-01 Thread Dair Grant
Frederik Ramm wrote: I'm surprised that nobody else seems to see a problem in this. Am I perhaps barking up some completely imaginary tree? Not at all; I am still reading through the draft, and have exactly the same concern. It may be I have misunderstood how this is intended to apply, but I

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Lawyer responses to use cases, major problems

2009-03-01 Thread Dave Stubbs
2009/3/1 Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com: On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: I'm surprised that nobody else seems to see a problem in this. Am I perhaps barking up some completely imaginary tree? Nope, not at all, I'm exceptionally concerned about the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] compatibility with CC licenses

2009-03-01 Thread Rob Myers
John Wilbanks wrote: (although I find the idea that freedom can only come from the barrel of a license deeply depressing). That's CC Zero out of the running then. If Big Company decides to run a mechanical turk contest on Amazon to extract facts from your DB one at a time, do they violate

[OSM-legal-talk] Proposal to update the Use Cases page

2009-03-01 Thread Peter Miller
I am proposing the update the text on the Use Cases page. I intend to merge some of the different Use Cases and introduce some new ones based on the problematic areas we are exploring on the list. I will also tweek the wording to make it clearer for the next legal review (especially the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] legal-talk Digest, Vol 31, Issue 4

2009-03-01 Thread John Wilbanks
(although I find the idea that freedom can only come from the barrel of a license deeply depressing). That's CC Zero out of the running then. Actually no. This is a slightly wonky lawyer debate about semantics, but we think tools like CC0 should be called *waivers* and not *licenses*.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] legal-talk Digest, Vol 31, Issue 4

2009-03-01 Thread Rob Myers
John Wilbanks wrote: This is why if you peruse the CC0 site, you'll see it referred to as a legal tool and not a license. It's a small thing, but an important thing to remember. Conflating the waiving of rights with the licensing of rights is what we're trying to avoid in this context.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Lawyer responses to use cases, major problems

2009-03-01 Thread MJ Ray
Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: With the GPL, the right to request the source is attached to receiving and using the binary. Withe the AGPL it is attached to being a user of the service. You can't just wander by and say hey! please can I have the source?, you have to be a user of the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Plan discussion on talk...

2009-03-01 Thread OJ W
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: Can we also ensure that any issues that we identify on the list get onto the Open Issues page on the wiki. In that way we can get the legal folk to only review the wiki page and not the whole conversation. I assume

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL License + Outline Procedure

2009-03-01 Thread OJ W
What's the purpose of S5.0 (disclaimer of moral rights), especially since the plain meaning of that section appears to differ from the 'attribution' element of the current license (not that I think attribution is a great idea with so many contributors, but some bulk-data donors include attribution

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Plan discussion on talk...

2009-03-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 05:34:59PM +, Peter Miller wrote: Would it be possible for someone to summarise the License Plan thread on Talk when it has come to a conclusion? Personally I am finding the intensity of license discussion a bit much the moment and would prefer to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Lawyer responses to use cases, major problems

2009-03-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Frederik Ramm wrote: We need to clarify this once and for all: Where exactly in the following typical rendering chain does the thing cease to be a database in our definition? * download (section of) OSM data * make changes to OSM data * render OSM data into vector graphics format

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [Spam] Re: License Plan discussion on talk...

2009-03-01 Thread Peter Miller
On 1 Mar 2009, at 21:37, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 05:34:59PM +, Peter Miller wrote: Would it be possible for someone to summarise the License Plan thread on Talk when it has come to a conclusion? Personally I am finding the intensity of license discussion a bit

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Proposal to update the Use Cases page

2009-03-01 Thread Peter Miller
On 1 Mar 2009, at 21:49, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Peter Miller wrote: I think these Use Cases are going to end up being twins of an eventual FAQ that I imagine will exist. I am starting to think that perhaps the license should be accompanied by a kind of interpretation document

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Lawyer responses to use cases, major problems

2009-03-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Dair Grant wrote: It may be I have misunderstood how this is intended to apply, but I think both 4.6a and 4.6b end up making derivative databases (effectively any mechanical processing of the original content whatsoever, IMO) problematic. In many cases, generating a file containing all

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A simplification of the agreement on the signup page.

2009-03-01 Thread Simon Ward
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 11:30:41AM -0500, Russ Nelson wrote: Creative Commons license (by-sa). or under the ODbL. If you choose not to give us your email address, or your email address stops working, you waive all right to ownership of your edits. This needs a safeguard to allow for email

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A simplification of the agreement on the signup page.

2009-03-01 Thread Russ Nelson
On Mar 1, 2009, at 12:46 PM, Philipp Klaus Krause wrote: Russ Nelson schrieb: [...], or your email address stops working, you waive all right to ownership of your edits. Probably about as legally binding as posting a note on the site that says By reading this you agree to sacrifice your

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A simplification of the agreement on the signup page.

2009-03-01 Thread Russ Nelson
I see your point. Data potentially infringing if removed now could be recreated now, making later bookkeeping easier. On Mar 1, 2009, at 7:33 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Russ Nelson wrote: I don't see much value in removing the data now on the chance that we might have to remove it

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] The Illustrated ODbL

2009-03-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, rich...@weait.com wrote: I've attempted to illustrate ways to use the OpenStreetMap database under ODbL and comply with the ODbL obligations. The box at the end of the Produced Work stream says: Share Alike is required if database is derivative. Attribution is always required. - It

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: incompatibility issues

2009-03-01 Thread Gustav Foseid
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Not so, it turns out; the Produced Work freedom allows us to combine OSM data *only* with other data whose license does not prohibit the addition of constraints, because ODbL mandates that we add the reverse engineering