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

2008-10-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tim Waters (chippy) wrote: On 10/11/08, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure, I wouldn't dispute that it's healthy. I would just observe that perceived failings may actually not have been failings for several months. As I said it would be good, very good indeed, to get the new

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

2008-10-11 Thread Peter Miller
, Peter -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:legal-talk- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Fairhurst Sent: 11 October 2008 00:18 To: Licensing and other legal discussions. Subject: [Spam] Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Paid services from OSM Simon Ward wrote

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

2008-10-11 Thread Rob Myers
Richard Fairhurst wrote: I am trying to restrain myself from replying to any of the other 9876 messages in this thread because It Has All Been Said Before. Me too. ;-) - Rob. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ legal-talk

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

2008-10-11 Thread Simon Ward
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:17:50AM +0100, Richard Fairhurst wrote: It shouldn’t be about specifically contributing back to OSM. Ivan has already pointed out this fails the desert island and dissident tests used as rules of thumb for the Debian Free Software Guidelines. Could I please ask

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

2008-10-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Dair Grant wrote: Richard Fairhurst wrote: b. A file containing all of the alterations made to the Database offered under this Licence, including any additional Data, that make up all the differences between the Database and the Derivative Database. Assuming I choose option

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

2008-10-10 Thread Simon Ward
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 08:05:23PM -0700, Mikel Maron wrote: If this were about code, the belief would be that every time someone compiled that code into running software, that binary would need to be freely available. Clearly not the reasonable thing for software. But you would have this

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

2008-10-10 Thread Dair Grant
Simon Ward wrote: I¹d rather those providing the PostGIS data be obliged to provide their source (planet dumps, whatever) to the same people. ... The example was convoluted, but I hope it illustrates my point that mere translation should not be excluded from being counted as a derived

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

2008-10-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Mikel Maron wrote: --- On Thu, 10/9/08, Simon Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Merely processing into a different format needs to be clarified. If someone takes OSM ways + nodes + relations and imports it into PostGIS without changing any of it, I see that as processing into a different format. I

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

2008-10-10 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, If the translation doesn't improve the OSM data, and you get the source planet dump with the translation, what would you do with the translation that you couldn't do better with the planet dump? I guess that is the core of Simon's argument - he fears that in some kind of doomsday

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

2008-10-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: 2. if yes, add some sort of sponge wording like within a reasonable time frame to alleviate the problem for people who try to process current data. It only says you must also _offer_ to recipients (my emphasis), not you must provide in case anyone wants it - it's like

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

2008-10-10 Thread Simon Ward
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:10:34AM +0100, Dair Grant wrote: Simon Ward wrote: I¹d rather those providing the PostGIS data be obliged to provide their source (planet dumps, whatever) to the same people. ... The example was convoluted, but I hope it illustrates my point that mere

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

2008-10-10 Thread Simon Ward
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 01:23:45PM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: I guess that is the core of Simon's argument - he fears that in some kind of doomsday scenario you would be stranded with only the derived product and no access to the real thing, that's why he wants the derived product

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

2008-10-10 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, 80n wrote: If someone forks the project then the fork should be able to operate on exactly the same basis as the original project. On closer inspection, this will never be possible. If you fork OSM, under the old OR new license, you will not take the data from the individual

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

2008-10-09 Thread Peter Miller
Ramm Sent: 09 October 2008 00:43 To: Iván Sánchez Ortega Cc: legal-talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Paid services from OSM Hi, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: Namely, by spending that time, IIRC, you have created a derived DB (you have changed the format of the data

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

2008-10-09 Thread Simon Ward
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 08:48:07AM +0100, Peter Miller wrote: 1) We clarify that a Derived Database is only deems to exist when the martial changes have occurred to the content of the DB, but not if the dataset has merely been processed into a different format. Merely processing into a

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

2008-10-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Simon Ward wrote: Merely processing into a different format needs to be clarified. If someone takes OSM ways + nodes + relations and imports it into PostGIS without changing any of it, I see that as processing into a different format. I believe that PostGIS DB should be freely

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

2008-10-09 Thread Simon Ward
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 07:26:05AM -0700, Sunburned Surveyor wrote: I can think of three types of material changes that we would want contributed back to OSM: [1] Modifications that improve (not degrade) the accuracy of a Feature geometry. [2] Modifications that improve (not degrade) the

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

2008-10-09 Thread Simon Ward
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 12:09:09AM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: Simon Ward wrote: Merely processing into a different format needs to be clarified. If someone takes OSM ways + nodes + relations and imports it into PostGIS without changing any of it, I see that as processing into a different

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

2008-10-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: Namely, by spending that time, IIRC, you have created a derived DB (you have changed the format of the data). You have to let people extract data from *that* DB. So OpenStreetMap would really have to publish psql dumps of the data structure created by