Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Best license for future tiles?

2010-11-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 11/18/10 14:47, Richard Fairhurst wrote: (I believe that the reasonably calculated in 4.3 imposes a downstream requirement as part of this: in other words, you must require that attribution is preserved for adaptations of the Produced Work, otherwise you have not reasonably calculated

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Best license for future tiles?

2010-11-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
is protected by database right once again and you need a license to use it. Otherwise, only the most obscure works (certainly not a printed map) could fall under the Produced Works rule. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [DRAFT] Contributor Terms 1.2

2010-11-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 11/17/10 10:46, ke...@cordina.org.uk wrote: Looking at this the eyes or a data-holder, say the OS, who is considering allowing data to be used this would be a big concern as the term means they would lose control over how their data is licensed. No, the data contributed to OSM can

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
that an upgrade along that path would be possible with a lot less eyes watching than an upgrade under the upgrade per clause 3 of the CT! Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
Vision. when they popped up here to discuss probably didn't help). Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
in the first place. It was Creative Commons who started the process of looking for a license that led to ODbL. It's just that Creative Commons left that process along the way. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 11/17/10 04:26, Anthony wrote: They left what process? The goal of the process was not to find a license like the ODbL. The goal of the process was to address the sui generis database right within the CC framework. This is not a contradiction. The ODbL could well have been the way to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Existing data

2010-11-14 Thread Frederik Ramm
that database would force you to release the whole database under ODbL which would violate the terms of CC-BY-SA. There are ways in which data could legally be combined but that's really going too much into detail for talk. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] license change map

2010-11-13 Thread Frederik Ramm
banner we're showing and personally I believe the only way to pull this through is indeed to make it very clear that we're committed to making the license change, rather than dithering around (a point on which, astonishingly, 80n seems to be on our side). Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Use Case

2010-11-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
to share the database that contains your picture IDs keyed against locations in the ODbL case since it could be argued that that database is derived from OSM and publicly used in your service. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Waiving attribution illegal in any country/-ies?

2010-10-25 Thread Frederik Ramm
completely different! Thus, no problems with CC0, WTFPL etc. on that side. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] legal FAQ license

2010-10-14 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Richard Weait wrote: Is there some OSM contribution or edit that is so mechanical and/or so insignificant that it need never be considered for copyright or database right? Any edit made by a robot - e.g. one that fixes spelling mistakes - certainly qualifies for never be considered for

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] legal FAQ license

2010-10-13 Thread Frederik Ramm
then they don't suddenly become copyrighted - or maybe they do, but then it's your copyright and not that of the original contributors (think of tearing a magazine to shreds and then gluing together a nice picture from the coloured pieces of paper). Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] legal FAQ license

2010-10-13 Thread Frederik Ramm
this not mean that we'd have to remove their contribution from OSM immediately because the required permissions for re-use/distribution have not been granted? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] list of user IDs having accepted the contributor terms

2010-10-10 Thread Frederik Ramm
that the intersection of both would always be B. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Legal or not? user srpskicrv and source = TOPO 25 VGI BEOGRAD

2010-10-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 10/03/2010 04:31 AM, John Smith wrote: None of those examples applies since it was a question about copyright ownership. I don't see why we should treat a nation state's laws about copyright any different than a nation state's idiosyncratic laws about maps or surveying. If you are in

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata amp; the new license

2010-10-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
Kevin, ke...@cordina.org.uk wrote: (b) that there is a very clear (and legally sound) description of the effect of the new licence when the time comes to vote so we can make an informed decision which way to vote based on the effect it will have. I don't know how long you have been following

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata amp;amp; the new license

2010-09-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Kevin Cordina wrote: What's important is that the licence choice be not used as a stick to enforce a particular policy about data imports or other aspects of mapping. And vice versa. I want to import dataset and that's why we cannot use license is tail-wagging-dog as well. Bye Frederik

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata amp;amp;amp; the new license

2010-09-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
the risk of sidelining OSM in the long run, or such. We already have some data that is not compatible with license is not one of them. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata amp; the new license

2010-09-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata amp; the new license

2010-09-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
for our data. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Does importing data give you a copyright?

2010-09-15 Thread Frederik Ramm
with the author of the complex program, or is actually pushing the button on the software in this case non-trivial enough to warrant copyright? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Garmin Maps / Produced Works

2010-09-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
to agree to the contributor terms. Indeed; the publisher could even be completely oblivious of them. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Would The ODbL and BY-SA Clash In A Database Extracted From a BY-SA Produced Work?

2010-09-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
/Produced_Work_-_Guideline. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Noise vs unanswered questions

2010-09-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
not become *impossible* with the CTs as they are suggested - they just require OSMF approval. So the question is not put very well. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Would The ODbL and BY-SA Clash In A Database Extracted From a BY-SA Produced Work?

2010-09-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
loopholes because even if you took the full DB and put the PostGIS dump on a CD declaring it a Produced Work, someone who used it would fall under the reverse engineering clause. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

[OSM-legal-talk] Garmin Maps / Produced Works

2010-09-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
? Is the OSMF board the ultimate arbiter? Can the definition be changed to be clearer? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] ODbL vs CC-by-SA pros and cons

2010-09-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
in strength. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

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

2010-09-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
and some are not necessary but prudent, among them the much-discussed clause 3; only the most presumptuous person would believe that a license they choose today will automatically be the best license for the project for all time. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org

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

2010-09-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, John Smith wrote: On 1 September 2010 17:30, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: only the most presumptuous person would believe that a license they choose today will automatically be the best license for the project for all time. The sheer arrogance of all this is astounding, you

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

2010-09-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
the impression that he is fighting for a principle, and I respect that. You, JohnSmith, are fighting for yourself, your data, and your applause from your audience. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

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

2010-08-31 Thread Frederik Ramm
of the contributor terms!). I think that most people would say that's a feature, not a problem. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] ODbL vs CC-by-SA pros and cons

2010-08-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
think that there is data in OSM that is so precious that we need to risk OSM's future just to be able to hold on to that data. Anyway I hear there's an excellent group of people planning a continuity fork so any data OSM cannot continue to use would be safe with them. Bye Frederik -- Frederik

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] To calm some waters - about Section 3

2010-08-26 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Kevin Peat wrote: Well I think someone wanting a PD project would need to start from scratch anyway as it would be hard for them to demonstrate that any existing data wasn't encumbered with other licenses given the wide use of imports and tracing in lots of countries. I think so too,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] To calm some waters - about Section 3

2010-08-25 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Simon Biber wrote: I and many others need a firm commitment to ensure contributions continue to be protected by attribution and share-alike in the future. -1 (I mean, you may need that but you shouldn't get it. As an aside I also want to point out that the use of continue to be

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Future relicensing in the contributor terms and data imports

2010-08-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
, say, CC-BY-SA have already been done but as you correctly say, these can become a liability later. It will almost certainly (IANABM, IANALWGM) not be considered for future imports. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

[OSM-legal-talk] New license for business: meh

2010-08-22 Thread Frederik Ramm
I ever sought one)... Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Size of NearMap Contribution

2010-08-20 Thread Frederik Ramm
Anthony, Anthony wrote: I think that the people count more than the data they contribute. That's a good statement. I'm happy that you have finally come to understand what this project is about! I was beginning to think you might just be here for the fun of the argument, whatever argument it

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Size of NearMap Contribution

2010-08-20 Thread Frederik Ramm
Andrzej, andrzej zaborowski wrote: So 300 mappers' work is not something we should make a fuss about? Let's put it this way: If 300 mappers are enough to put in a veto against the CT or the license change then we can stop right now, because I am pretty sure that *whatever* you do (even if

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Size of NearMap Contribution

2010-08-20 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, John Smith wrote: In my eyes the ODbL and CT are part and parcel and I refer to both as the license change. I don't think that you can separate them. Is that because you don't think people will swallow the CTs unless they are a package deal? No, my statement above is not politically or

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Size of NearMap Contribution

2010-08-20 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Francis Davey wrote: Has anyone given much thought to how this works for the sui generis database right of the European Union? Certainly the EU hasn't, the whole database right is written for a world where company X pays employees to gather data. I am wondering (as others have

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Size of NearMap Contribution

2010-08-20 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, John Smith wrote: (Not, of course, this particular version of the CT, if that's what you're Exactly... you are trying to sell us a particular happy meal that isn't making us happy... us being...? And I'm not trying to sell anything. If you agree that some for of CT is required, and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] I don't want companies stealing OSM data that I contribute!

2010-08-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Emilie Laffray wrote: While I am not a legal expert, I will try to answer that one. Companies can already make money from OpenStreetMap: there are plenty of examples around (Skobbler, Cloudmade, Geofabrik, etc). There is nothing preventing a company from using the data. However, they

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] I don't want companies stealing OSM data that I contribute!

2010-08-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
(moving this thread to legal-talk) Valent: AFAIK with new Contributor Terms [1] all data entered into OSM can be taken by some company, closed and they could create a product made profit on it. Grant: No, they have to make the data available. The data is share-alike.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New contributors and some data sources are not allowed under the CTs but too easy to access.

2010-08-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
think any of them have restricted their editing to PD sources exclusively. So it seems editors will need to keep track of background image licenses anyway and with what they are compatible in order to warn or prevent the user in an adequate way. No, I don't think so. Bye Frederik -- Frederik

[OSM-legal-talk] Size of NearMap Contribution

2010-08-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
because even though this posting does not deal with anything legal, I have a hunch that follow-ups will. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Simple question about CT

2010-08-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
email but is completely separate. Any license decision you make on one account will not influence the other. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Simple question about CT

2010-08-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, David Groom wrote: However from a legal point of view the CT terms say is is an agreement between you and OSMF. Interesting, and probably true. But since making the second account forces you to use a different email address, how will we ever know with certainty that you and you are the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
Anthony, Anthony wrote: I don't trust the OSMF to properly remove all of my work and derivatives of my work if/when they stop releasing those derivatives under CC-BY-SA. In December last year we had a guy also called Anthony on legal-talk who said: I live in the United States, where

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
of their data. If it later turns out they lied, or were certifiably insane at the time they made the statement, I can always remove it again. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Open Data Definition at OSCON

2010-08-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
Russ, On 08/08/2010 06:34 AM, Russ Nelson wrote: Here are the questions we arrived at (thanks to Skud aka Kirrily Robert for taking notes): Good observations. Might be worth to discuss with folks at odc-disc...@lists.okfn.org as well. I'll forward your post there for people to be aware of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 08/08/2010 09:25 AM, John Smith wrote: On 8 August 2010 17:03, Russ Nelsonnel...@crynwr.com wrote: copyright on it and claim it as their own. Because the ODbL and CC-By-SA impose a cost on the community. I mean, if we're going to get rid of contributors on purpose, then at least

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
Liz, On 08/08/2010 10:21 AM, Liz wrote: You are welcome to join a 48,000 km kayak trip to survey the Australian coastline. I'll completely replace it with the PD PGS shoreline if anyone ever again says we cannot do X because of the imported Australian shoreline. Honestly, I will. Bye

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
(and is documented in the implementation plan on the wiki) that immediately before changeover, a last cc-by-sa planet including full history will be made available. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
absurd, and you're making a clown of yourself by repeating your question every two days. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, 80n wrote: Does anyone know whether the code exists to do this yet? I doubt it. How are way splits handled (only one half of the way will have a full history)? I think they can be auto-detected (i.e. where in one changeset, one way suddenly loses some nodes and another springs up

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, John Smith wrote: Any such mechanism, in my eyes, need not be 100% perfect; it is sufficient to make a honest attempt at doing the right thing, and if a few things slip through, then fix them in case of complaints. Which goes against the usual OSM policy of rejecting it if unsure, rather

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-26 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Heiko Jacobs wrote: Rob Myers schrieb: Creative Commons did put a mechanism in place with BY-SA 3.0 to declare other licences compatible with BY-SA and allow derivatives to be relicenced under them. But they haven't declared any compatible yet. So updating our 2.0 to 3.0 and then

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] PD declaration non binding?

2010-07-25 Thread Frederik Ramm
if it is possible legally though, because the very nature of database right is to protect the whole database - once you deal with database right you don't deal with individual contributions or data items any more. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-24 Thread Frederik Ramm
the software under another license. Often there won't even be a separate download link. It is perfectly sufficient if someone agrees to ODbL, we can then take his data from our existing database. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] PD declaration non binding?

2010-07-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
Tim, TimSC wrote: I don't get that impression when I read the wiki. It says it is only a statement and making this statement does not change what people can do with your data. Looking at the wiki, those lines were written by Frederik Ramm. I guess I'll ask him what he intended. I would very

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] PD declaration non binding?

2010-07-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Andy Allan wrote: 3) I can consider my edits public domain to my heart's content, but if they are based on other people's non-PD edits, then they aren't going to be fully PD. I think in the wake of the license change we will have to develop a number of very interesting metrics telling us

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Relicensing, PD, leverage and petitions

2010-07-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
wouldn't ask for more at this time. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Relicensing, PD, leverage and petitions

2010-07-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
legal - not legal specifically for OSM and only if the license is X. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

[OSM-legal-talk] Mixing ODbL and CC-BY-SA databases

2010-07-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
publish the tiles. Right? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
John, John Smith wrote: You are correct, it's obvious that there is some people unhappy with the status quo. I wouldn't exactly say I am unhappy with the status quo. It's like living in a house where experts say it is going to fall apart any minute - you might like to be able to retain the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-13 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Liz wrote: And the arrangement was that whether the licence change went ahead or not depended on how many people agreed to relicense their data Firstly, if anyone ever said how many people then that was a mistake, because the number of people is of little interest, it is the amount of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] public transport routing and OSM-ODbL

2010-07-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Oliver (skobbler) wrote: Sure, any Derivative Database that is made available to a 3rd party falls under the share-alike. No doubt about that. This handled in section 4.4. The exceptions are handled in the following section 4.5. In case of your Produced Work, you make the Produced Work

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] public transport routing and OSM-ODbL

2010-07-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] having anonymous internet users editing the map

2010-06-27 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Frederik Ramm wrote: lulu-...@gmx.de wrote: As the topic of the map is discussed controversely, vandalism is likely to happen, I am afraid. If the user attempts to use OSM as a vehicle to further his own side in whatever controversy you are alluding to, risking to bring lots of vandals

[OSM-legal-talk] legal-talk mailing list archive is broken

2010-06-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
another article is referenced: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2007-March/000179.html however if you click on the link you are led to a completely different article than the one the link was pointing to originally! Can it be fixed? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CC-BY-SA and derivate works

2010-06-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
the community will oust you. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CC-BY-SA and derivate works

2010-06-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CC-BY-SA and derivate works

2010-06-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
of recording stuff around us somehow entitles us to dictate our terms and conditions to others. Just like you think that it is of course all yours if you design a good map from OSM data, OSMers assert that it is all theirs. I find both positions morally questionable. Bye Frederik -- Frederik

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CC-BY-SA and derivate works

2010-06-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
is really not the right license for OSM. CC is not the right license for OSM, but not for any of the reasons you have mentioned. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Potential huge License violation - anyone know anything about this?

2010-06-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
. Is that allowed?) with something other than Dunno, ask a lawyer, and we might still sue you later. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Potential huge License violation - anyone know anything about this?

2010-06-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
illustrated here: http://cdn-www.cracked.com/articleimages/ob/piratebay_header.jpg Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Potential huge License violation - anyone know anything about this?

2010-06-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
, and you then violate his license by simply taking the stuff and distributing it CC-BY-SA, can he sue you? Can you be jailed for stealing from a thief? Probably depends on jurisdiction. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Potential huge License violation - anyone know anything about this?

2010-06-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
it would have been best if the book had been printed with proper attribution and license, which the next edition will no doubt be. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Proposed human readable contributor terms

2010-05-14 Thread Frederik Ramm
to support them. There seem to be some areas where it works, but I have the impression that triumphantly adding a 23rd language to some page on the Wiki does not, overall, improve quality. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Viral can be nice

2010-04-22 Thread Frederik Ramm
Erik, Erik Johansson wrote: Obviously a lot of people think Openstreetmap is more than just a collection of coordinates in a db. I think you try to redefine it in a way that supports your PD argument. Firstly, I am not making a PD argument but an ODbL argument here. Secondly, I'm not

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Viral can be nice

2010-04-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
Ævar, Pretty much they only thing I've ever gotten out of OSM personally (besides exercise and being able to use it on my GPS) is being able to use the various map renderings by ITO World, CloudMade etc. under the same free license as the data. That may well be; but OSM is not, in its core,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Viral can be nice

2010-04-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
are you enforcing terms you don't agree with? lol. Ok, so people might not respect a license that you don't agree with, but why care about fair play when the rules are wrong? I'm German. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] viral attribution and ODbL

2010-04-20 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, M?rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: do we really want to require the 38th party down the line to still attribute OSM no matter how diluted the OSM content has become? yes. Why should it have become diluted? The very nature of a produced work is to dilute OSM content because otherwise it would

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] viral attribution and ODbL

2010-04-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 19:43, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: I am not bothered about individual contributions because everyone who contributes *knows* what OSM is like and that he cannot expect to get personal attribution. If someone however has

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using img OSM data

2010-04-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
should be able to learn much more from that than from just decompiling the IMG file! Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: Produced Works other than maps

2010-03-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
don't manage to override that definition with a community norm, then one of the most promising aspects of ODbL, namely making it easier to deal with maps produced from our data, becomes void. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: Produced Works other than maps

2010-03-27 Thread Frederik Ramm
with data licensed under another license). Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

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

2010-02-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
but the root of the right remains with the natural person). So that would make sense. On the other hand, database rights can, and usually are, accrued by corporations and not individuals... Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] is this usage of osm a violation of cc-by-sa?

2010-02-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
Jonas, Jonas Stein wrote: On the webpage there is still no change. What did they say? There is a suggested process for dealing with such cases on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lacking_proper_attribution This process does not involve reminding the legal-talk list every two weeks about

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Contributor Terms draft changes

2010-02-14 Thread Frederik Ramm
that copyright doesn't apply - which of my rights would you have violated, or which contract broken? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] You may not sublicense your rights under these Terms to any person

2010-02-11 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Stefan Neufeind wrote: Hmm, so actually we'd need some volunteers on a toilet trip to go there, check the toilet details and map it from their own site-survey. I'm sure the .au community can provide interesting foodstuffs to further that objective! Bye Frederik

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Are we strict enough with imports ?

2010-02-11 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Jean-Guilhem Cailton wrote: Ok, but please do not forget that in crisis situations (e.g. Haiti), there could be people dying while the deliberation would be taking place... This is something to be discussed later, I guess, but my take is that we should separate crisis stuff from the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Public map with osm violates CC-by-SA

2010-02-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
Jonas, Jonas Stein wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Wandertafel has the wrong license information been fixed already? Those who know don't read this list. Those who read this list mostly don't read German. A posting to talk-de would probably return more results! Bye Frederik

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [odc-discuss] Draft of an Open Data Commons Attribution License

2010-01-12 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, SteveC wrote: then we also need a NC version. NC licenses are not compatible with OKFN's own definition of Open Knowledge, Paragraph 8: (quote) 8. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the work in a specific field of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Copyright Assignment

2010-01-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Simon Ward wrote: On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 02:44:53AM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote: Unless you're willing sign something that says I agree that OSMF will make two attempts to contact me at my registered e-mail address with information on how to vote on an upcoming license change suggestion

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Copyright Assignment

2010-01-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
registered e-mail address with information on how to vote on an upcoming license change suggestion, and if I don't react then that counts as an abstain vote. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Copyright Assignment

2009-12-26 Thread Frederik Ramm
to sublicense. That makes this recent article by Michael Meeks on copyright assignment in free software very relevant: If the article is only relevant to copyright assignment situations, then I don't think it is relevant for us. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Copyright Assignment

2009-12-26 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Anthony wrote: Where is the actual legal phrasing of this license to sublicense? In the paragraph just below the actual legal phrasing of the copyright assignment! Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

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