Re: [OSM-legal-talk] I am not going to remove any old node in my hometown

2011-12-19 Thread Peter Miller
On 12 December 2011 13:58, fk270...@fantasymail.de wrote: After watching the License Change View on OSM Inspector, I have decided not to change any of the few red dots and ways marked in the OSM inspector. Some ways have one old version by an anonymous or undecided author and up to seven

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CC-BY-SA / Non-separatable combination of OSM+other

2011-02-02 Thread Peter Miller
On 2 February 2011 19:05, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: On 02/02/2011 06:39 PM, Peter Miller wrote: So... you are suggesting that you believe that no one will ever be able to overlay an osm map, or indeed an ccbya image with any image that not available on an open license even

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-04 Thread Peter Miller
On 4 January 2011 15:49, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Rob Myers wrote: On 04/01/11 15:05, Richard Fairhurst wrote: OS OpenData is AIUI compatible with ODbL and the latest Contributor Terms. [citation needed]

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [Spam] list of user IDs having accepted the contributorterms

2010-10-11 Thread Peter Miller
Very useful. I note that currently only 256 of the first 10,000 users are signed up only 1.5% for the first 100,000. It would be great to see what work the other people did and of we have the important ones. I realise that we are still in the voluntary phase but the numbers do seem pretty low.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OS map copyright expiry dates, FOI request

2009-09-22 Thread Peter Miller
On 21 Sep 2009, at 10:30, Ed Avis wrote: Good work! This must mean that if we see Ordnance Survey maps in secondhand shops with a copyright date of 1958 or earlier, we should buy them and start scanning them in. (I know about the npemaps site; is there some other collection of

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

2009-09-19 Thread Peter Miller
On 19 Sep 2009, at 04:38, Paul Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 23:19 -0500, tele...@hushmail.com wrote: My question is what type of attribution is appropriate? I have no problem informing my end-users where I get the data. More than happy to do that. However, do I need to attribute

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OS map copyright expiry dates, FOI request

2009-09-15 Thread Peter Miller
On 15 Sep 2009, at 00:59, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, TimSC wrote: The next question that occurs is can OS reverse their view or is an FOI binding in some way. I'd say they can probably always backtrack, but they cannot blame you for taking this answer as face value and start using OOC

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Fwd: [OSM-talk] copyright problem with datacopiedfrom a map

2009-08-18 Thread Peter Miller
On 17 Aug 2009, at 19:13, SteveC wrote: On 17 Aug 2009, at 11:13, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2009/8/17 Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com: You may wish to set up a Belgium equivalent for this page to act as a record of such reverts. As you can see we have been having some problems

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

2009-05-13 Thread Peter Miller
On 13 May 2009, at 01:36, Matt Amos wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: ...and Peter Miller's concerns are legit: If you are the licensor, then, under 4.4.d... Licensors may authorise a proxy to determine compatible licences under

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

2009-05-12 Thread Peter Miller
On 12 May 2009, at 04:13, Matt Amos wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:17 AM, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: I have just concluded an email discussion with Jordan following our lawyers review of 1.0 who has answered some points but is now saying that he would need someone

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

2009-05-12 Thread Peter Miller
On 12 May 2009, at 08:00, Simon Ward wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 08:14:49AM +0200, 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, then introducing it to a large jurisdiction without

[OSM-legal-talk] QA with a lawyer

2009-05-11 Thread Peter Miller
On 11 May 2009, at 23:43, Matt Amos wrote: 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, in which we went over a series of short questions that

[OSM-legal-talk] Produced Work

2009-05-07 Thread Peter Miller
On 7 May 2009, at 02:36, SteveC wrote: Hi We've put together a practical definition for the OSMFs point of view on what a substantial extract is, or isn't http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Substantial_Defined And we'd like help similarly with building a practical

[OSM-legal-talk] Substantial defined article updated

2009-05-07 Thread Peter Miller
I have done some work on the Substantial Defined wiki article creating an introduction to the issue and linking to the Use Cases page where there is discussion of the issue. I have also created links from the Use Case page and the Open Issues page from the relevant sections to this article

[OSM-legal-talk] Legal review by ITO lawyer

2009-05-06 Thread Peter Miller
not ODC, some are minor and can in our opinion be ignored and some remain. We should be in a position to publish the results tomorrow. Regards, Peter Miller ITO World Ltd ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http

[OSM-legal-talk] ODbL 1.0 timetable

2009-04-28 Thread Peter Miller
On 27 Apr 2009, at 20:33, Mike Collinson wrote: The Open Data Commons have announced their release schedule as follows. Wed 29th Apr (next wed): public release of 1.0 RC (Release Candidate) Wed 6th May (following wed): comments period on 1.0 RC close Wed 13th May (following wed): 1.0

[OSM-legal-talk] Substantial meaning

2009-04-24 Thread Peter Miller
On 23 Apr 2009, at 19:42, SteveC wrote: Has there been any discussion on what people here feel 'substantial' means in the context of the definitions of the ODbL? I've banged around the wiki looking but might might have missed it. Here's the first important bit relevant to this in the ODbL:

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

2009-03-14 Thread Peter Miller
in practice happy days Regards, Peter At 02:44 PM 13/03/2009, Peter Miller wrote: I have put the legal review we have received for the current license draft on the wiki. I have organised it so that we can comment and discuss the issues after each of the points on the wiki page

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

2009-03-12 Thread Peter Miller
/Licensing_Working_Group_Meetings Regards, Peter Miller Cheers Andy ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk ___ legal-talk mailing

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

2009-03-07 Thread Peter Miller
On 7 Mar 2009, at 00:30, Frederik Ramm wrote: I did something for which those who cleaned up Use Cases might hate me; I pulled in three major items from Open Issues into a new section called Definitions on the Use Cases page. They are not use cases proper, but reading the use cases I

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

2009-03-06 Thread Peter Miller
On 6 Mar 2009, at 11:07, 80n wrote: On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:54 AM, graham gra...@theseamans.net wrote: Frederik Ramm wrote: I believe the Foundation intends to give a vote *only* to those who were members in good standing as of January 23rd so your few days had better be 40-ish if

[OSM-legal-talk] Are Produced Works anti-share alike?

2009-03-06 Thread Peter Miller
On 6 Mar 2009, at 16:11, 80n wrote: I may have got this all wrong but it seems to me that Produced Works are potentially compatible with most licenses, but are not compatible with most share alike licenses. I hope this isn't right and that someone can explain the flaws in my

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: incompatibility issues

2009-03-02 Thread Peter Miller
On 2 Mar 2009, at 07:38, Gustav Foseid wrote: On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Not so, it turns out; the Produced Work freedom allows us to combine OSM data *only* with other data whose license does not prohibit the addition of constraints, because

[OSM-legal-talk] Who is ODC and why do we trust them?

2009-03-02 Thread Peter Miller
any published minutes from the OSMF for Jan or Feb 09 yet so we have no visibility of what decisions they have been making which is a shame. I will email them and suggest that they publish them to help in this process. Regards, Peter Miller ITO World Ltd Bye Frederik

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Who is ODC and why do we trust them?

2009-03-02 Thread Peter Miller
On 2 Mar 2009, at 09:30, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: Btw, we don't have any published minutes from the OSMF for Jan or Feb 09 yet so we have no visibility of what decisions they have been making which is a shame. I will email them and suggest that they publish them to help in

[OSM-legal-talk] Proposal to update the Use Cases page

2009-03-01 Thread Peter Miller
I am proposing the update the text on the Use Cases page. I intend to merge some of the different Use Cases and introduce some new ones based on the problematic areas we are exploring on the list. I will also tweek the wording to make it clearer for the next legal review (especially the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [Spam] Re: License Plan discussion on talk...

2009-03-01 Thread Peter Miller
On 1 Mar 2009, at 21:37, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 05:34:59PM +, Peter Miller wrote: Would it be possible for someone to summarise the License Plan thread on Talk when it has come to a conclusion? Personally I am finding the intensity of license discussion a bit

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Proposal to update the Use Cases page

2009-03-01 Thread Peter Miller
On 1 Mar 2009, at 21:49, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Peter Miller wrote: I think these Use Cases are going to end up being twins of an eventual FAQ that I imagine will exist. I am starting to think that perhaps the license should be accompanied by a kind of interpretation document

[OSM-legal-talk] Major update to the Open Database License wiki page

2009-02-28 Thread Peter Miller
I have reworked the main Open Database Licence page (and renamed it) so that it provides an useful introduction to the whole license background and the current position to a first time reader. I have bumped the detailed content from the existing page to a new page. Check out the page here

[OSM-legal-talk] Updates to ODbL related Wiki pages and outstanding issues

2009-02-27 Thread Peter Miller
I have been through the wiki pages that relate to the ODbL and updated them where I can. I have updated the name of the license to OdBL on all pages (I think). I have updated the links to the license itself to point to OpenDataCommons not OpenContentLawyer in all cases (I think). I have

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Mass import of TeleAtlas data

2009-02-08 Thread Peter Miller
On 7 Feb 2009, at 21:09, SteveC wrote: Albertas - we will look urgently at this. Thanks. Please also follow up the report by Sarah Manley from CM that the Belarus import is suspect. I forwarded her email from talk to legal-talk on the 14th Jan, but am not aware that any action has been

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Open Data Licence (Re: 23rd Dec board meeting)

2009-01-25 Thread Peter Miller
On 25 Jan 2009, at 12:00, Richard Fairhurst wrote: sward wrote: By having a closed development process, and publishing drafts for review, OSMF have forced the process to involve rounds of consultation. It's not OSMF's licence. It is a third-party licence which OSM is considering and on

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] 23rd Dec board meeting

2009-01-25 Thread Peter Miller
On 25 Jan 2009, at 12:12, SteveC wrote: On 24 Jan 2009, at 21:09, Peter Miller wrote: Depending upon the precise circumstances this duty not to accept benefits could be relevant in the case of the Foundation. Presumably Steve Coast Will receive some form of benefit from his other company

[OSM-legal-talk] 23rd Dec board meeting

2009-01-24 Thread Peter Miller
) think that no one else should be able to comment on the license, notable Peter Miller (director and shareholder in ITO) and Frederic Ramm (director and shareholder in Geofabric) who have asked repeated for access on legal-talk. Doesn't sound right to me given that CM, ITO and Geofabric

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

2009-01-24 Thread Peter Miller
On 24 Jan 2009, at 15:27, Rob Myers wrote: Peter Miller wrote: Without a public vote the board are effectively saying to each and every one of use individually: 'accept these new terms or please leave the community now and don't slam the door - oh, and we will remove your data shortly

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] 23rd Dec board meeting

2009-01-24 Thread Peter Miller
On 24 Jan 2009, at 13:11, Dair Grant wrote: Peter Miller wrote: Is there not a large potential conflict of interest between SteveC in relation to his driving this change within the Foundation and also being a director of a company that could well benefit from the OSM project

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] 23rd Dec board meeting

2009-01-24 Thread Peter Miller
On 24 Jan 2009, at 20:26, Grant Slater wrote: Liz wrote: On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Dair Grant wrote: You argue that anyone with a commercial interest in OSM (e.g., me) who's listed on the {{PD-user}} page (me again) has a potential conflict of interest. That's the way Australian law

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

2009-01-23 Thread Peter Miller
the foundation posts on this list regularly at all - do keep it up! Regards, Peter Best, Mikel From: Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com To: Licensing and other legal discussions. legal-talk@openstreetmap.org Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 11:36:47 PM Subject: Re: [OSM-legal

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

2009-01-23 Thread Peter Miller
On 24 Jan 2009, at 00:25, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, thank you for making the December minutes available. From them I see that you're already having your next meeting today. Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) wrote: The licence doesn't get implemented if the vote is against its

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

2009-01-22 Thread Peter Miller
On 22 Jan 2009, at 23:05, andrzej zaborowski wrote: 2009/1/22 Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com: Hi Fredrik Will they be available to process our input after we see the text? Is there any plan for how our feedback will be processed before the public is asked to accept the new license -

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] 'Fair Use'

2009-01-13 Thread Peter Miller
On 12 Jan 2009, at 14:52, Rob Myers wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com wrote: There does however appear to be something in the UK about 'fair dealing'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing#Fair_dealing_in_the_United_Kingdom It seems

[OSM-legal-talk] data import in Belarus

2009-01-13 Thread Peter Miller
Begin forwarded message: From: Sarah Manley sa...@cloudmade.com Date: 13 January 2009 21:14:47 GMT To: t...@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Spam] [OSM-talk] data import in Belarus Dear All, I am writing on behalf of someone I met at a LUG meeting I spoke at who is concerned that the data

[OSM-legal-talk] 'Fair Use'

2009-01-12 Thread Peter Miller
As you may know a number of us are focusing on mapping the Gaza Strip at present. We have now collected a good body of information on Gaza that is copyright to someone or other. We have identified further sources that don't make any copyright statement. Details here:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New licence? Trademarks?

2009-01-09 Thread Peter Miller
On 9 Jan 2009, at 15:49, Brian Quinion wrote: We are of course also awaiting confirmation that all trademark applications have successfully been transfered into the foundation's name (they were initial made in SteveC's own name). I hope that this transfer will have been confirmed when the

[OSM-legal-talk] New licence? Trademarks?

2009-01-03 Thread Peter Miller
Ok, so here we are in 2009. No new licence (it was promised by Xmas 08), no word update on the current status of the licence on this list during December, no updates to the ODL pages on the wiki and no minutes from the December Foundation directors meeting available on- line yet. I have:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Removal of CC-SA-BY licensed data from OSMafter ODbL takes effect

2008-12-10 Thread Peter Miller
It does concern me that the only people discussing the licence are not officially included in the consultation process at all and it makes it all seem less useful than it should be. We have also not had any official comment on any of the questions raised on the list recently from the

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

2008-12-10 Thread Peter Miller
On 10 Dec 2008, at 23:33, Frederik Ramm wrote: Peter, Peter Miller wrote: Where is the official input from the foundation to all this? Lawyers or laymen, we cannot expect that people come up with official answers to our questions within a day - much less can we assume

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OSM Foundation / Domains / Trademark

2008-12-01 Thread Peter Miller
The August of September minutes have been published. Thank you. Fyi, the draft minutes of the latest meeting are behind password authentication. Can the requirement for authentication be removed to make it generally accessible? I don't know if I have a password as a foundation member, but I

[OSM-legal-talk] No board meeting minutes since June08?

2008-11-17 Thread Peter Miller
, Peter Miller ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Copyright of OSM-Logo

2008-11-17 Thread Peter Miller
The minutes referred to in the post below don't appear to mention the trademark application. I can't find a reference to it in other minutes either. Am I missing something? Regards, Peter -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:legal-talk- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

[OSM-legal-talk] Update to Open Data Licence page

2008-11-03 Thread Peter Miller
I have done some edits to the Open Data Licence Page. I have 1) Created a 'See Also' section with links to other related pages (some of which were listed previously in the intro paragraph) 2) Edited the criticism section to make it clearer, to remove detail and link to other places

[OSM-legal-talk] Updated Brief and Use Cases page

2008-11-02 Thread Peter Miller
I have given the 'brief and use cases' page a bit of a tidy up over the past day and moved a lot of the content around. I have: 1) Put the Use Cases ahead of the brief, because the Use Cases seem to be getting most of the attention 2) Re-ordered the Use Cases to put the most common

[OSM-legal-talk] [Announcement] new mailing list: legal-general

2008-10-31 Thread Peter Miller
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:legal-talk- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Collinson Sent: 31 October 2008 16:47 To: OSM; legal-talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: [Spam] [OSM-legal-talk] [Announcement] new mailing list: legal- general After some requests

[OSM-legal-talk] Use cases: Click-through

2008-10-27 Thread Peter Miller
Frederik Ramm wrote: I have added an extra use case on the click-through topic, basically saying that we'd like to avoid having to set up a tightly controlled environment where everyone has to make sure to only pass the data on to people who have agreed to some legal document beforehand.

[OSM-legal-talk] Timeline for implementation of the ODBL

2008-10-17 Thread Peter Miller
I have just noticed that SteveC created a wiki page outlining his proposed process for implementing the ODBL Licence about a month ago. Here it is: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Open_Data_License/Timeline Does this make sense to people? This is good but it does raise various

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Starting Repository For Public Domain OSM Data

2008-10-16 Thread Peter Miller
Don't set up too much of your own structure just yet, because it is very well possible that it makes sense to fly under the flag OpenStreetMap/PD once things are a bit clearer, but you cannot possibly expect many from OSM to endorse the thing when so little is clear about it... personally, I

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Starting Repository For Public Domain OSM Data

2008-10-16 Thread Peter Miller
What does OSM Foundation think about the PD repository? Would it make sense to host both licences under the name OpenStreetMap or would it be confusing? How much OSMF wants to be part of the PD version? After all I think most of the decisions will be the same for both (e.g. deciding about tags,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licence brief/Use Case - final call forcomments

2008-10-16 Thread Peter Miller
to know a great deal about the subject. One of the outputs from this process will be a set of informed recommendations and observations which ITO will make available to the OSM community and to the foundation to help in the licence drafting process. Regards, Peter Miller CEO, Ito World Ltd

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licence brief/Use Case - final callfor comments

2008-10-15 Thread Peter Miller
:36:39PM +0100, Peter Miller wrote: I was really signalling that I had got the Brief and Use Cases into a form where I was happy with them and where I thought they covered the issues raised but needed confirmation re that from others. The way you phrased it made it sound final even

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

2008-10-12 Thread Peter Miller
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:legal-talk- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frederik Ramm Sent: 13 October 2008 00:14 To: Licensing and other legal discussions. Subject: [Spam] Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License License License Hi, Peter Miller wrote: Mike

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Paid services from OSM

2008-10-11 Thread Peter Miller
I have updated the wiki 'brief' to reflect a number of issues raised in the past few days. 1) I have removed all references to 'public' in the brief and now ensure that Derived Database are distributed at least as widely as the end-user experience itself and that others are free to distribute it

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Paid services from OSM

2008-10-09 Thread Peter Miller
I notice that the conversation has moved on from issues around Derivative Databases to factual/copyright data. Can I confirm that we have agreement on the previous point re Derivative DBs? Can I suggest: 1) We clarify that a Derived Database is only deems to exist when the martial changes have

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New license: What is publication/distribution?

2008-10-07 Thread Peter Miller
sections (4.4, 4.4c..) - are those sections in the new license, and where can they been seen? BR, Kari On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 7:22 AM, Peter Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:legal-talk- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Ward Sent: 07

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New license: What is publication/distribution?

2008-10-06 Thread Peter Miller
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:legal-talk- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Fairhurst Sent: 06 October 2008 13:39 To: Licensing and other legal discussions. Subject: [Spam] Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New license: What is publication/distribution? Frederik

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New license: What is publication/distribution?

2008-10-06 Thread Peter Miller
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:legal-talk- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Fairhurst Sent: 06 October 2008 16:08 To: Licensing and other legal discussions. Subject: [Spam] Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New license: What is publication/distribution? Peter Miller

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New license: What is publication/distribution?

2008-10-06 Thread Peter Miller
:54PM +0100, Peter Miller wrote: I have added the brief to the wiki here. Notice that I have also created a 'Use Cases' section heading where we can add key example uses of the data which we can use to validate the final licence. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Open_Data_License

[OSM-legal-talk] Please enable commercial use

2008-05-07 Thread Peter Miller
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 09:00:22 +0200 From: Sebastian Spaeth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Please enable commercial use To: Licensing and other legal discussions. legal-talk@openstreetmap.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain;

[OSM-legal-talk] License update

2008-03-19 Thread Peter Miller
) Test the licence via the use cases using the agreed mechanisms. 5) Recommend the licence for adoption by the community. Regards, Peter Miller ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http