Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Contents Licence for OSM Data

2014-10-30 Thread Florian Lohoff
to spend 500K€ on a commercial dataset than to spend 5k€ on a Lawyer analyzing a licensing issue. ANY restriction is a problem for adoption as one can see e.g. from the discussion about geocoding data. Flo -- Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] I want my access back

2011-08-15 Thread Florian Lohoff
on parts you might accept that some of the contributers feel exspelled from OSM by the OSMF which some of us feel is a very nebulous foundation which is not really connected to our daily work but still requests all powers. Flo -- Florian Lohoff f

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] I want my access back

2011-08-15 Thread Florian Lohoff
all my OSM work already. Flo -- Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de „Für eine ausgewogene Energiepolitik über das Jahr 2020 hinaus ist die Nutzung von Atomenergie eine Brückentechnologie und unverzichtbar. Ein Ausstieg in zehn Jahren, wie noch unter der rot

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] I want my access back

2011-08-12 Thread Florian Lohoff
decided that it would be best to switch and the best would be ODBL. There has been no Mapper/Contributer participation up to now ... Flo -- Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de „Für eine ausgewogene Energiepolitik über das Jahr 2020 hinaus ist die Nutzung von

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] I want my access back

2011-08-10 Thread Florian Lohoff
Hi, On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 05:07:15PM +0200, Robert Kaiser wrote: Florian Lohoff schrieb: More interestingly - Why on earth cant i contribute although i stated that all my contributions can be considered CC0/Public Domain? Why do i need to accept the CT, granting some spooky special rights

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] I want my access back

2011-08-09 Thread Florian Lohoff
be considered CC0/Public Domain? Why do i need to accept the CT, granting some spooky special rights to some folks i dont know and who definitly not act in my name. Flo -- Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de „Für eine ausgewogene Energiepolitik über das Jahr

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Rights granted to OSMF (Section 2 of the CT)

2011-04-17 Thread Florian Lohoff
still retain that) is not unheard of in open communities. But has been a major point of problems in the past. Have a look at the GCC issues. Patches will not be submitted because a transfer of copyright is a no go for some. Flo -- Florian Lohoff f

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-31 Thread Florian Lohoff
it was the chronically weak book market that caused England, the colonial power, to fritter away its head start within the span of a century, while the underdeveloped agrarian state of Germany caught up rapidly, becoming an equally developed industrial nation by 1900. Flo -- Florian Lohoff

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Contributor Terms review

2010-08-27 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 09:54:04AM +0200, Lars Aronsson wrote: This is true, but it's also true that what OSM wants is to have something as similar as possible to GPL, but applied to maps. I dont - Am i OSM? Flo -- Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de