Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Permissibility of incorporating parts of an address from a business' website

2013-04-25 Thread Kevin Peat
On 25 April 2013 11:14, Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es wrote: The folks who drafted the EU DB directive most likely were not aware that in a near future, a person from a country A could put data about country B in a DB inside a computer in a country C... But in their world view

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Compliance timeline

2011-04-08 Thread Kevin Peat
On 8 April 2011 11:38, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ed, transfer rights to the OSMF I believe that this is the (only) critical issue. To be open contributions need to be given freely and without restriction, so as to avoid the current situation where some contributors

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

2010-10-07 Thread Kevin Peat
On 7 October 2010 10:43, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: On 10/07/2010 10:04 AM, Ed Avis wrote: Rob Myersr...@... writes: I'm coming to the conclusion that individual contributor of original data to OSM and institutional importer of a third party database should be treated differently,

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

2010-08-26 Thread Kevin Peat
On 26 August 2010 01:05, Sebastian Hohmann m...@s-hohmann.de wrote: Starting a new project would be like rebuilding the whole house, just to make it a new color. The upgrade clause is like repainting the house, but restricting this to only very few colors, might make a future owner unhappy.

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

2010-08-25 Thread Kevin Peat
On 25 August 2010 08:41, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: It is bad enough if the share-alike minority force their will on the rest of the project now; we must not allow them to force their will on everybody who is in OSM in 10 years' time. I find this oft-repeated argument to be

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Is CC-BY-SA is compatible with ODbL?

2010-08-14 Thread Kevin Peat
On 14 August 2010 10:14, Francis Davey fjm...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 August 2010 10:09, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: I might miss the point: but why do some governments put their data under cc-by or cc-by-sa licenses if those are not suitable for data but only for