Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Progressing OSM to a new dataLicence regime

2008-02-06 Thread Jordan S Hatcher
My apologies but the DBL text seems to be mis-formatted -- probably as a result of my last wordpress update. It should be fixed now, but just in case the downloads offer the canonical version. Thanks! ~Jordan Mr. Jordan S Hatcher, JD, LLM jordan at opencontentlawyer dot com OC Blog:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Progressing OSM to a new dataLicence regime

2008-02-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 11:52:24AM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote: Let us drop all this nonsense and concentrate on drawing up the moral guidelines - saying what we consider ok and what not - instead of fantasizing about having legal powers to enforce anything. I don't get it : you go on

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Progressing OSM to a new dataLicence regime

2008-02-06 Thread Gervase Markham
Jordan S Hatcher wrote: I'd like to note that, just to clarify, factual data is generally not copyrightable, and so there would be nothing to assign. Why is it that we are assuming (and I'm not just saying this to Jordan) that the individual nodes and ways in OSM are factual data? I don't

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Progressing OSM to a new dataLicence regime

2008-02-06 Thread Gervase Markham
Frederik Ramm wrote: If the contract is between OSM and the user, then Foo cannot sue Bar for breach of contract because they have no contract. (Can my business sue your business because you use a pirated copy of Microsoft Windows and thus have an unfair advantage? Unsure but don't

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Progressing OSM to a new dataLicence regime

2008-02-06 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gervase Markham wrote: | Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote: | Long term, we can avoid the ambiguity by making it clear that all data | belongs to OSM, whoever that is (probably the foundation), then we can | let the foundation change the license whenever