[OSM-legal-talk] Privacy and Terms

2009-06-24 Thread SteveC
Dear all One of the things that's resulted from getting help with the license process is that it's been noticed we don't have a lot of the legal furniture, and thus protection and clarity, found frequently elsewhere. We've been offered some fairly standard privacy and terms of use

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Privacy and Terms

2009-06-24 Thread Gervase Markham
On 24/06/09 06:56, SteveC wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy_-_Discussion_Draft The Mozilla project has a privacy policy which I would suggest is rather friendlier, while still being lawyer-approved - at least, US lawyers. I'm sure I could arrange for you to be able

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Privacy and Terms

2009-06-24 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Gervase Markham wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use_-_Discussion_Draft These seem very long indeed. What risks are we mitigating here? If they are significant, why does every website in the world not have to have one of these? Yes, I'm also very tempted to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Privacy and Terms

2009-06-24 Thread Russ Nelson
On Jun 24, 2009, at 4:31 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: I could probably find something idiotic in every paragraph if I put my mind to it but I'd rather do something else. Some of the stuff is there simply by virtue of having any terms of use at all, e.g. Assignment, Survival, or Claims. Some of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Privacy and Terms

2009-06-24 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/6/25 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: Yeah, sure, and if I leave the house a brick might fall on my head and I'd be dead. I'm almost sure you wanted to write tile ;-) cheers, Martin ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Privacy and Terms

2009-06-24 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/6/25 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: For example, if we build strong national chapters that, legally, are separate from OSMF, these could easily between themselves set up all the servers required to replace everything OSMF operates. With such a healthy backup network, it would not

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Privacy and Terms

2009-06-24 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2009/6/25 Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com: Hallo Frederik oops, sorry, not for the list. Martin ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk