Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL Enforcement (Re: OBbL and forks)

2009-12-12 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, James Livingston wrote: Which brings us on to enforcement - at some point a user is going to use ODbL licensed data, not comply with the licence, and not respond to asking nicely. Who is going to sue them to enforce the ODbL and for what? I am certainly not going to sue anybody. I

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL Enforcement (Re: OBbL and forks)

2009-12-12 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Rob Myers wrote: Rather than naming and shaming, the FSF and the SFLC always work quietly to get compliance from people who break the GPL. They don't call them out in public or drag their asses to court to make an example of them. Legal action and the publicity that brings is a last

[OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: How obscure/inaccessible can published algorithms be?

2009-12-12 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, OdbL has this requirement where, if you publish a produced work based on a derived database, you also have to publish either (a) the derived database or (b) a diff allowing someone to arrive at the derived database if he has the original, publicly available database or (c) an algorithm

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: How obscure/inaccessible can published algorithms be?

2009-12-12 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Matt Amos wrote: let's assume it's known that this company is definitely using OSM data - determining that can be difficult, depending on exactly what it is they're doing with the data. in general, it's very difficult to do anything directly from the planet file alone, so i'd suspect that

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: How obscure/inaccessible can published algorithms be?

2009-12-12 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, 80n wrote: I think you've lost the thread. Now, you are arguing that you can't spot a derivative database. My original question was aiming at whether or not there are ways to weasel yourself out of the requirement release derivative databases or the algorithms leading to them. I think

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: How obscure/inaccessible can published algorithms be?

2009-12-12 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Anthony wrote: Where does one draw the line between a Derivative Database, a Collective Database, and a Produced Work anyway? Part of the answer is, in almost salomonic fashion, here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Produced_Work_-_Guideline There's also tons of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licence termination

2009-12-10 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, David Groom wrote: From this I infer that, unless a Person is in breach of the Terms of the licence, we give them the right to access the OSM database under the terms of the licence as it was at the time they first started to use the database. I think you are mixing up the terms

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Extent of share alike?

2009-11-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hallo, Matt Amos wrote: However, my question is, how far does the share alike section of the Creative Commons licence go. I want to share the map data with OSM but not the other sections of the work. this lack of clarity is one of the problems with the CC BY-SA license. the short answer

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Illegal activity

2009-11-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Richard Fairhurst wrote: I'm not particularly au fait with national copyright law in mainland Europe. Doubtless you can answer on France: I can't see anything in German law that would give protection. I have lost thread of what kind of protection exactly you are talking about, but

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Extent of share alike?

2009-11-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Matt Amos wrote: does that mean that no-one can redistribute a screenshot of the application? Yes, that's my reading, unless you invoke some superior right to fair use or citation or whatever applicable in your country; which would of course make any copyright discussion obsolete. - I

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODBL enforcement: contract law and remedies

2009-10-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
Ed, I don't quite follow your logic. You seem to be saying: 1. there is no proof that CC-BY-SA doesn't work; 2. there is danger that anything based on contract law weakens the protection we have for our data (because breach of contract doesn't give us a strong handle) 3. you accept that

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODBL enforcement: contract law and remedies

2009-10-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Ed Avis wrote: if we carry on licensing CC BY-SA we may get to the state where CC BY-SA is challenged. if the challenge is in the US, i think there's a good chance of OSMF losing, Would that be such a disaster? If such a precedent were set, then any factual data derived from OSM would

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODBL enforcement: contract law and remedies

2009-10-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Andy Allan wrote: That is, Creative Commons have advised us, and everyone else, to not use CCBYSA for data. It doesn't come more plain than that. I would very much appreciate if *everyone* who invokes Creative Commons saying that CC-BY-SA is not suitable for data would also add the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODBL enforcement: contract law and remedies

2009-10-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Ed Avis wrote: In general, the ideal licence would not need to be fully watertight in all jurisdictions, but only strong enough to provide a good deterrent in practice for most individuals and companies. What would you want to deter them from? Bye Frederik

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODBL enforcement: contract law and remedies

2009-10-27 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Matt Amos wrote: ODbL does exactly this: it is a copyright and database rights license, Can you explain this some more. I thought the copyright aspect was explicitly not covering the content (a fact that was actually critisised by a legal reviewer who found it too clumsy to have an extra

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODBL enforcement: contract law and remedies

2009-10-26 Thread Frederik Ramm
it, the copyright aspect of ODbL only covers things like the data structure or schema etc., but not the contents. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Proper attribution

2009-10-22 Thread Frederik Ramm
really flag bot accounts - assuming that mass-changing something into something-other does not earn you any copyright *even* if original contributions were copyrightable. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL virality questions

2009-10-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Matt Amos wrote: this is the crux of the question. the ODbL makes no distinction between lat/lon data, ID data, or any other sort of data. so the question then becomes; if i'm using some data from an ODbL database and incorporating that into my database, do i have to release all of my

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL virality questions

2009-10-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Matt Amos wrote: can the SA requirement be satisfied by saying that we consider the extracted IDs to be an ODbL part of a collective database, where the proprietary data is the other part? it would require the ODbL part (i.e: the list of IDs) to be made available, but nothing else. It

[OSM-legal-talk] OSM IDs as foreign keys (was: ODbL virality questions)

2009-10-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, (for those on dev; this started out as a discussion on whether or not we want to put any legal/license restrictions on external users linking to OSM objects for identification, e.g. a restaurant guide saying this pub is OSM node #12345) Matt Amos wrote: i would hope so too, as it makes

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL virality questions

2009-10-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, no-one is suggesting that the extraction of names, locations and IDs would be somehow outside of the ODbL. any site using these as lookup keys would have to release that data under the ODbL. [...] as a concrete example, let's pretend i have a site, beerintheOSM, which rates pubs and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] reciprocal data agreements

2009-10-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
Richard, Richard Weait wrote: Imagine a data provider using perhaps cc-by, or a BSD style permissive license contributes their data to OSM. Imagine then that they would like to monitor changes in OSM to data that originated from their source. Imagine then that they would like to incorporate

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Protection time of ODbL

2009-10-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Jukka Rahkonen wrote: Was the answer to my question that nobody knows how long ODbL is protecting the data and it is impossible to tell it exactly? No, I think the answer was forever. Bye Frederik ___ legal-talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Protection time of ODbL

2009-09-30 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, James Livingston wrote: On 30/09/2009, at 7:36 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Question is: 1. what about the contents themselves. Have we reached a consensus that the contents of the database are themselves not protected by copyright and do we explicitly say that we don't claim any

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] attribution of data for use on TV

2009-09-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, tele...@hushmail.com wrote: My question is what type of attribution is appropriate? We had a huge discussion about this 2.5 years ago but not a lot has changed since, so you might want to read the thread with the misleading subject OSM Layer into Adobe Illustrator,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Software using open street map data and Licensing model / restrictions

2009-08-20 Thread Frederik Ramm
application displays OSM data loaded from file 1 and proprietary data loaded from file 2, then you can keep the licenses separate. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Re-licensing and public domain contribution as an user option

2009-08-11 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Gioele wrote: Instead of choosing between re-licensing to ODbL and having their contribution removed, they could choose to release their contribution (past and future) into public domain. Should we go ahead with the ODbL relicensing - a question that is still not answered and for which

[OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: Where do we stand regarding collective/derivative databases

2009-07-27 Thread Frederik Ramm
are thinking? Is there some lawyer opinion on cases like this documented somewhere in the vast depths of our Wiki and LWG minutes? (I'm just trying to determine what exactly ODbL mandates - not trying to find out what would be desirable in an ideal world.) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Is CC-BY-SA really so ineffective?

2009-07-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Ed Avis wrote: Frederik Ramm frede...@... writes: If it is the settled view of the OSM project, based on legal advice, that copyright plus CC-BY-SA does not protect the Openstreetmap geodata from being copied and incorporated into other works, can an official statement be made

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Is CC-BY-SA really so ineffective?

2009-07-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Grant Slater wrote: Quote next section... If you're under 16: - Never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example, school, telephone number, your full name, home address or email address). Not capturing any personal information from under 13 year olds,

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

2009-07-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
to operate a site that explicitly invites e.g. Nazi contributions and then play innocent). 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] Privacy and Terms

2009-07-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Protection_Act Should we perhaps have two sets of Terms and Condition - one that applies if the user is in the USA, and the other if he isn't? One with 200 lines of text, the other with 10? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Contributor Terms

2009-07-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Brendan Barrett wrote: What happens if someone, with malicious intent, deletes lots of data or uploads things that cause trouble (e.g. upload Teleatlas data, then tip off Teleatlas to make trouble). Do we reserve the right to sue them for damages, and if so, would this agreement be the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Printed maps and new license

2009-07-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, George Ionescu wrote: One more quick question, just to be sure: how should we handle printing media in CC-BY-SA terms? Is printing ©OpenStreetMap - CC-BY-SA on the map enough to ensure I'm complying with current OSM license? If you have enough room then we prefer the URLs for OSM and CC

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Contributor Terms

2009-07-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Ed Avis wrote: Should say: You agree to only add contents for which you are the copyright holder, *or which are in the public domain*, *or which already have permission from the rights holder to distribute under Licence X*, or where you have explicit permission from the rights holder to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Contributor Terms

2009-07-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Ed Avis wrote: ODbL, as fast as I understand, does not permit re-licensing, which means that even if you have other data that is ODbL licensed, you cannot upload it to OSM without express permission of the license holder. But if OSM also adoped ODbL then no re-licensing would be

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

2009-06-26 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Russ Nelson wrote: I was relying on information in this book. Feel free to disagree with John Forester (elsewhere), but my point applies to any unlikely event of bad consequences which can me mitigated at low cost. At low cost is something that remains to be seen - with the initial

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

2009-06-24 Thread Frederik Ramm
probably find something idiotic in every paragraph if I put my mind to it but I'd rather do something else. 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 data grant

2009-06-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
not fighting with each other for once? 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] OGC Geospatial Rights Management Summit

2009-06-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: Facts are Facts and can't be Copyrighted ... which ist not exactly the position that OSM is taking on this matter; in fact, with ODBL we go to great lengths to ensure that even if our facts should not be copyrightable we still get to say exactly under what

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL RC and share-alike licensing of Produced Works

2009-06-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
a database from a non-database. Ist that correct? 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] Produced Work guideline working

2009-05-22 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] Produced Work guideline working

2009-05-22 Thread Frederik Ramm
Works cannot be licensed under ODbL, and if it is a database it *must* be licensed under ODbL). This means that the choice cannot be deferred until the work is actually used, doesn't it? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] QA with a lawyer

2009-05-13 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Gervase Markham wrote: The way of avoiding it seeming to be FUD is to have a clause like: Nothing in this licence attempts to restrict your rights under fair use or a similar doctrine. Sounds like: We have a honest desire to sue the shit out of you if you violate any of our 52

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] QA with a lawyer

2009-05-12 Thread Frederik Ramm
. 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] QA with a lawyer

2009-05-12 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Frederik Ramm wrote: What I'm concerned with is mainly: How big is the risk of someone whitewashing our data from the contractual part of the ODbL, I should have explained: Such whitewashing would require someone to breach the contract by removing all licensing information

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] QA with a lawyer

2009-05-12 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Peter Miller wrote: However if the OSMF can change the license and given that it is a viral license then surely anyone else can also change the licensing of any derived database? Our lawyer mentions that the OSMF could 'sell it of commercial terms' or make it available to a

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] QA with a lawyer

2009-05-12 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, the OSMF LWG recently had a couple of calls with Clark Asay, who has generously agreed to give OSMF legal advice concerning the new license. i've attached the write up of the first of the calls Was that based on the 0.9 or 1.0 license? I am concerned because of Q: Is the process of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] QA with a lawyer

2009-05-12 Thread Frederik Ramm
, and that's it.) 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] QA with a lawyer

2009-05-12 Thread Frederik Ramm
of the license that would say as much. Forks are not supported ;-) 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

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] QA with a lawyer

2009-05-12 Thread Frederik Ramm
proclaim that the BSD style license is compatible with ODbL. Yay! Where can I sign up ;-) 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] Produced Work

2009-05-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Jukka Rahkonen wrote: Thus it would be allowed to to take less than 100 features or area of less than 1000 inhabitants and make PD, Share alike or commercial derivatives from that without any restrictions. Is my interpretation right? There's the problem of the reverse-engineering

[OSM-legal-talk] ODbL RC and share-alike licensing of Produced Works

2009-05-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
-license the whole of OSM under ODbL and CC-BY-SA. Has that been discussed and found to be a good idea? Or does OSMF not have the intention of declaring CC-BY-SA a compatible license, and if not, how will CC-BY-SA licensed produced works be made possible? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] map data acknowledgement?

2009-04-26 Thread Frederik Ramm
of 237 tile choices depending on your request characteristics. Surely my.tel cannot be expected to deal with this, so in my eyes route-me should make sure that if they hand out OSM tiles, they also hand out the matching attribution... Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Substantial meaning

2009-04-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
, just peer through the XML with *any* text editor and Ctrl+F) your raw XML processing capabilites seem to vastly exceed mine ;-) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-dev] Bittorrent

2009-04-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
by those who are party to it before it can be of legal relevance. (Maybe you're reading this on dev and are unaware of the 1000+ postings in the previous year on legal-talk about the matter...?) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] using openstreetmap

2009-04-15 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Mohamad Ali wrote: 1.We develop a tracking system used for GPS devices, so we display the vehicles on map in real time,.. Can we have your tracks ;-) My question is : what are the terms and conditions of using ' OpenStreetMap ' for a tracking system? I mean can we use it for

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Telephone Debate

2009-03-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
with interpretation and continuous development of the license. To my understanding OSMF has not yet nominated anyone for this job. Any volunteers? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Legal review by ITO World's lawyer

2009-03-15 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Russ Nelson wrote: I don't want a virus, but I like the reciprocal nature of these licenses. Reciprocal is not the correct term IMHO. Reciprocal would mean that if you take our data you will have to give us something in return. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Telephone Debate

2009-03-15 Thread Frederik Ramm
an informed decision, then how can Joe Mapper who hasn't even followed the discussion? 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] License Telephone Debate

2009-03-12 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Nick Black wrote: I've always felt that you were completely aligned behind the aims of OSM - we can disagree, but at the end of the day we're all here for the same reason. Right now, its really hard to find anything positive or constructive in your ongoing bombardment of these lists.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [Spam] Re: License Telephone Debate

2009-03-12 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Grant Slater wrote: We're made up of native English and Dutch speakers, we need assistance from people who speak other languages. I have already done a lot of translation work into German for the license process (as have others), and have generally tried to inform the people on talk-de

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Computer-generated derivative

2009-03-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, And therefore, I presume the same is true if the program is a Flash app (running client-side, of course, albeit with a browser frame around it) which outputs the result as a PDF - which Fred can then save to his local hard drive and/or print. Right? Since you're asking me

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Reverse-Engineering Maps and Share-Alike Licences

2009-03-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
of compatible SA licenses for Produced Works. 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] Difference between a Produced Work and a Derived Database

2009-03-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
step. So we should perhaps not go over the top. It is unlikely that we'll ever have a license that works in North Korea. Bye Frederik [*] (assuming the use-convey blunder is fixed but it if it isn't then ODbL is unlikely to be used for OSM) -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Difference between a Produced Work and a Derived Database

2009-03-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
it is not any better than CC-BY-SA. 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] Are Produced Works anti-share alike?

2009-03-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
up; think of publishing an R rated film under CC-BY-SA where you will be required to add the restriction to not sell it to under-18s (depending on jurisdiction etc etc). Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Reverse-Engineering Maps and Share-Alike Licences

2009-03-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
) an OSM dataset licensed exactly as it is today. Great win! See also: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Suggested_Changes#Possible_solution_.231:_Explicitly_allow_popular_SA_licenses Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Reverse-Engineering Maps and Share-Alike Licences

2009-03-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
unfriendly country and do WTFYW if you're the kind of person so inclined. 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] CC-BY-SA and T+Cs

2009-03-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
. (For the record, even though I run a company that is set to benefit from OSMF reducing service because this would increase the market for commercial map data providers, I don't advocate such a move.) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Todays (thurs) license working group call

2009-03-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
is perhaps not as concise as you (Steve) would have liked when you asked for a list to be emailed but I think it is the best we can do without loss of information. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] License to kill

2009-03-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
mechanism for those that pop up later, rather than rushing through something where we already have a list of known bugs. 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] License to kill

2009-03-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
manages to strip off the license then all is lost. 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] 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

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

2009-03-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
). 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] compatibility with CC licenses

2009-03-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
(URI) [...] both in the Database [...] and in any relevant documentation 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] ODbL: incompatibility issues

2009-03-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
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Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Plan discussion on talk...

2009-03-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
in our Wiki but it will be a hell of a lot of work. 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] 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] Lawyer responses to use cases, major problems

2009-03-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
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Re: [OSM-legal-talk] The Illustrated ODbL

2009-03-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
way or another. 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] A Creative Commons iCommons license

2009-02-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
its essential capability of being accessed as a database. And the essential capability of database-ness is protected, as Richard pointed out, even if the data should be conveyed by means of a Produced Work. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A Creative Commons iCommons license

2009-02-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
to be layered application. 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] A Creative Commons iCommons license

2009-02-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
independent of the channel through which you received the original database. 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] Mass import of TeleAtlas data

2009-02-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
vandalism and abuse and encouraged all to comment. It would be interesting for us to have access to this document, as the potential measures against repeated copyright infringement are probably similar to those against vandalism and abuse. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licensing Working Group report, 2009/01/22

2009-01-25 Thread Frederik Ramm
re-license; otherwise they can always claim they were not clear about what they were signing.) 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] Licensing Working Group report, 2009/01/22

2009-01-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
draft as published in 2. 6. if vote positive: implement license and ask mappers to sign up 7. if vote negative: back to the drawing board Is that correct? Mikel? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licensing Working Group report, 2009/01/22

2009-01-22 Thread Frederik Ramm
) upgrading scheme? 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] Trademark applications

2009-01-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
for OSMF business? The advantage would then be that half the board already know how to use it ;-) 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] Open Issues

2008-12-15 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Peter Miller wrote: I would however suggest that we avoid the legal details where possible and try to just describe in plain english what the problem is. Well - in plain English there is no problem. The questions I am asking arise from the legal construct! There is no core non-legal

[OSM-legal-talk] Open Issues

2008-12-14 Thread Frederik Ramm
suggest that anyone editing the page tries the same; If you think my wording is too strong (we must decide blah blah) then just change it to something better (it would be prudent to decide blah blah) or put a whole paragraph into perspective or whatever. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: Who is the licensor / whose database is it?

2008-12-11 Thread Frederik Ramm
I meant with the number 3 in my original post, yes ;-) 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] Removal of CC-SA-BY licensed data from OSM after ODbL takes effect

2008-12-10 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, 80n wrote: The key phrase is cannot be contacted and the import being that if they were contactable they would probably agree to the new license. If they subsequently make contact and don't agree to the new license then they can legitimately claim that their copyright is being

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: Who is the licensor / whose databaseis it?

2008-12-10 Thread Frederik Ramm
just people like you and me, and even though we have talked and thought about the licensing stuff forever, we manage to come up with new and unprecedented license questions every other day ;-) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL modules?

2008-11-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
that these licenses are somehow all one family until they think about it and find out that the members of this family don't particularly like each other. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk

[OSM-legal-talk] Trademark (was: Copyright of OSM-Logo)

2008-11-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
the name. I would like to hear from the foundation about their concept of acceptable use of the trademark. Would you, for example, allow openstreetmapsucks.org and OpenStreetMap Services, Inc.? Who has a say in the matter? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL modules?

2008-11-14 Thread Frederik Ramm
is actually the greatest problem with the CC licenses and I'm happy not to see it repeated here. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Circumnavigating Share-Alike through software / now and future

2008-10-27 Thread Frederik Ramm
and publicy displaying these - as long as you don't distribute or publicly display, the whole section 4 does not apply. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License update

2008-10-25 Thread Frederik Ramm
your results here before you give them to the lawyers so that we can point out possible omissions. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] PD vs SA: The eternal battle

2008-10-25 Thread Frederik Ramm
just achieve this. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

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