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

2009-03-02 Thread Peter Miller
On 2 Mar 2009, at 07:38, Gustav Foseid wrote: 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

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

2009-03-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, 80n wrote: I can imagine a scenario where, for example, Google uses Amazon's Mechanical Turk to pay lots of people to use Map Maker to trace from OSM's rendered tiles. Is this a scenario we could try to fight when it happens, instead of complicating things upfront, or would it be too

[OSM-legal-talk] Who is ODC and why do we trust them?

2009-03-02 Thread Peter Miller
On 2 Mar 2009, at 08:29, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Grant wrote in his announcement: ... Therefore, we have worked with the license authors and others to build a suitable home where a community and process can be built around it. Its new home is with the Open Data Commons

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

2009-03-02 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/3/2 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: 80n wrote: I can imagine a scenario where, for example, Google uses Amazon's Mechanical Turk to pay lots of people to use Map Maker to trace from OSM's rendered tiles. Is this a scenario we could try to fight when it happens, instead of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Who is ODC and why do we trust them?

2009-03-02 Thread Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)
Peter Miller wrote: Sent: 02 March 2009 8:57 AM To: Licensing and other legal discussions. Subject: [OSM-legal-talk] Who is ODC and why do we trust them? On 2 Mar 2009, at 08:29, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Grant wrote in his announcement: ... Therefore, we have worked with the license

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Who is ODC and why do we trust them?

2009-03-02 Thread Peter Miller
On 2 Mar 2009, at 09:30, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: Btw, we don't have any published minutes from the OSMF for Jan or Feb 09 yet so we have no visibility of what decisions they have been making which is a shame. I will email them and suggest that they publish them to help in

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

2009-03-02 Thread Rob Myers
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Simon Ward si...@bleah.co.uk wrote: 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

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Concerns about ODbL

2009-03-02 Thread Rob Myers
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 12:40 PM, jean-christophe.haes...@dianosis.org wrote: I found out recently about the license change issue, and I discover with fear that everything looks decided. I feel I'm being rushed. The licence discussion has been going on for a couple of *years* now. It needs

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Concerns about ODbL

2009-03-02 Thread OJ W
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: OJ W wrote: the ability to create an uncopiable map image from OSM data does seem to have appeared in the ODbL license? You can create an image and (provided that your image is not a data base, a distinction that has

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Concerns about ODbL

2009-03-02 Thread Rob Myers
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:35 PM, OJ W ojwli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: OJ W wrote: the ability to create an uncopiable map image from OSM data does seem to have appeared in the ODbL license? You can create an image and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Concerns about ODbL

2009-03-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Jean-Christophe Haessig wrote: I surely understand that contributors’ names won’t disappear from OSM itself, however with that clause, someone might make a copy of the database, remove the names and redistribute it (only attributing to OSM), which will in effect disable the users of this

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

2009-03-02 Thread Gustav Foseid
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.comwrote: There has been some discussion of adding a tag into the planet.osm header detailing that the data is licensed. Also adding some contract text on http://planet.openstreetmap.org/ to cover our non-eu-database-right

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

2009-03-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Grant, Grant Slater wrote: There has been some discussion of adding a tag into the planet.osm header detailing that the data is licensed. Actually this is exactly what the license suggests: Quoting 4.2 (b) [You must] Include a copy of this Licence [...] or its Uniform Resource Identifier

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

2009-03-02 Thread Gustav Foseid
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Quoting 4.2 (b) [You must] Include a copy of this Licence [...] or its Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) [...] both in the Database [...] and in any relevant documentation Sorry, overlooked that. If this is in the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Factual Information License and Produced Works?

2009-03-02 Thread Ulf Möller
80n schrieb: As far as I know there has been no attention paid to the FIL. It was grabbed at the last minute from here It doesn't look like it has been reviewed thoroughly (and the co-ment page seem to be password protected.) The requirement to include a copy of the license pretty much

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Concerns about ODbL

2009-03-02 Thread Jean-Christophe Haessig
Le lundi 02 mars 2009 à 14:14 +0100, Frederik Ramm a écrit : No. If that were the case then OSM would have gone PD long ago and we would all be mapping happily instead of wasting our time trying to create freedom from the barrel of a license (kudos to JohnW for this phrase). Ok, I believe

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Factual Information License and Produced Works?

2009-03-02 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
I'd like to clarify the reason for two (2) licenses. The FIL is being considered for individual atoms of data, while the ODbL is being considered for major chunks of the database? Is this correct? Would it be helpful to: [1] Determine what is an atom that the FIL would apply to. [2] Determine

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

2009-03-02 Thread Simon Ward
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 05:05:00AM +, Jukka Rahkonen wrote: This needs a safeguard to allow for email addresses temporarily not working. I’m not even sure this is the right thing to do anyway. It’s far safer getting rid of a user’s data than it is assuming ownership of it. Some

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

2009-03-02 Thread Simon Ward
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 08:08:58AM +, Peter Miller wrote: I do not read the ODbL this way. I read that only persons bound by the license/contract are prohibited from reverse engineering. Clarification here is needed. When we find an issue like this then lets document it on the wiki and

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

2009-03-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Simon Ward wrote: I’d prefer people carry on discussing issues, here _and_ on the wiki, +1... discuss stuff here, record on the Wiki, so that when the time comes to judge whether a revised license addresses our concerns we can tick off the issues from the Wiki pages. Bye Frederik --

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Concerns about ODbL

2009-03-02 Thread Simon Ward
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 01:40:47PM +0100, jean-christophe.haes...@dianosis.org wrote: * Waivers : thankfully I cannot legally waive my moral rights in my country, but I think it is unfair to require this form any person in the world. While I agree to collective attribution, I share some of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] regarding ODC and OKF

2009-03-02 Thread Ulf Möller
John Wilbanks schrieb: In terms of OKF, hosting licenses is hard, and versioning licenses is really hard, but OKF has been around for a while and is a solid group of folks. If they are going to host your license you are way ahead of the game in terms of having a group that is smart and