Re: [OSM-legal-talk] UK mapping authority switches to Open Government Licence (was: CTs and the 1 April deadline)

2011-01-07 Thread Mike Collinson
At 08:36 PM 6/01/2011, John Smith wrote: On 7 January 2011 05:25, Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: Nope. Clause 4 survives any license changes in the future, it is nothing to do with the end user license: 4. At Your or the copyright owner’s holder’s option, OSMF agrees to attribute You

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

2011-01-07 Thread Mike Collinson
At 08:28 PM 6/01/2011, John Smith wrote: On 7 January 2011 05:14, Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: I almost wish that Tobias Knerr's words earlier in this thread were my own: The Contributor Terms are clearly based on the idea that we are building a database together. It's not just

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] UK mapping authority switches to Open Government Licence (was: CTs and the 1 April deadline)

2011-01-07 Thread Mike Collinson
At 02:20 PM 7/01/2011, John Smith wrote: On 7 January 2011 23:56, Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: requirement. Since the Australian government, virtually alone, publishes I was under the assumption that the NZ govt, if not many others, published data under the same/similar license

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] UK mapping authority switches to Open Government Licence (was: CTs and the 1 April deadline)

2011-01-06 Thread Mike Collinson
At 03:32 PM 6/01/2011, John Smith wrote: On 7 January 2011 00:45, Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: Clause 4 of the new CTs may cover us completely, [it was designed for governmental organisations] and I have updated IMHO, section 4 is useless unless there is some kind of clause stating

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

2011-01-06 Thread Mike Collinson
At 05:04 PM 6/01/2011, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Mike Collinson wrote: given that at least one contributor has been pointlessly editing my personal contributions apparently so that they are no longer ODbL-ready, sickly sadly all too possible. That's vandalism, of course. Could you share

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] UK mapping authority switches to Open Government Licence (was: CTs and the 1 April deadline)

2011-01-06 Thread Mike Collinson
://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attributionhttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution. Mike At 04:42 PM 6/01/2011, John Smith wrote: Which clause 3 contradicts On 1/7/11, Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: At 03:32 PM 6/01/2011, John Smith wrote: On 7 January 2011 00:45, Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz

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

2011-01-05 Thread Mike Collinson
I have provisionally added Francis' suggested wording but would like to run it by other License Working Group members. It may help NearMap and similar situations. Here is the CT version that we are looking at formally releasing:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New phrase in section 2

2010-12-07 Thread Mike Collinson
://docs.google.com/View?id=dd9g3qjp_933xs7nvfbhttp://docs.google.com/View?id=dd9g3qjp_933xs7nvfb and currently released 1.0 text http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Contributor_Terms should be diff-marked with colour highlighting and strike-outs. Mike At 07:39 PM 5/12/2010, Mike

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New phrase in section 2

2010-12-05 Thread Mike Collinson
Before this thread goes any further,Yes, a cock-up I believe, possibly mine. The un-highlighted text should be the same as CT 1.0. Thank you fx99 for pointing it out. Will investigate. Mike At 03:39 PM 3/12/2010, Richard Fairhurst wrote: David Groom wrote: If the OSMF board wish to move

[OSM-legal-talk] Regarding future Contributor Terms upgrades

2010-11-23 Thread Mike Collinson
The License Working Group had a request from a contributor to make a statement to the effect that users who sign up to v1.0 of the Contributor Terms will be allowed to upgrade to future versions. I am now happy to provide such a formal statement: All the rights granted in the new proposed

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] We Are Changing The License missing relevant information

2010-10-26 Thread Mike Collinson
At 08:42 PM 25/10/2010, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2010/10/25 Richard Weait rich...@weait.com: On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: I just answered a user's question on how to accept the new contributor terms. I'll quote his statement here: ''How do we

[OSM-legal-talk] The ball starts rolling ... Paris City Council to use ODbL

2010-10-06 Thread Mike Collinson
Paris City Council will publish 20 data sets before the end of this year under ODbL 1.0. Members of our own French community and chapitre Creative Commons France [1] (!!) have had involvement in this process. Congratulations to Paris and to them.

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

2010-10-05 Thread Mike Collinson
To come back on topic, I don't think this has made legal-talk yet. Thanks to Jordan Hatcher, whose mail I am re-working: The new UK Open Government Licence is now out: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/open-government-licence.htm

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Voluntary re-licansing and CT 1.1

2010-10-05 Thread Mike Collinson
At 09:03 AM 5/10/2010, Jukka Rahkonen wrote: Ed Avis e...@... writes: Perhaps there should be a meta-contributor-terms where you agree to accept future contributor terms proposed by the OSMF. Then there wouldn't be the need to re-ask everybody each time the contributor terms change.

[OSM-legal-talk] Contributor Terms review

2010-08-26 Thread Mike Collinson
The License Working Group met Tuesday. Most, if not all, comment at the moment is on the Contributor Terms. Therefore we will devote next week's meeting (Aug 31) entirely to going though each issue already raised. We will then pass these on to legal counsel for review. When we get a response,

[OSM-legal-talk] Contributor Terms - The Early Years

2010-08-22 Thread Mike Collinson
Liz, You asked about the early intent of the Contributor Terms before they were re-written by legal counsel. As promised: http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Working_Group_Minutes or directly https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1lVQlsnuEKPY2gjspScwHqgmo8RyoqmuaWWmWh58T4TY 0.1

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

2010-08-22 Thread Mike Collinson
At 10:46 AM 14/08/2010, Rob Myers wrote: On 08/14/2010 07:33 AM, Liz wrote: If you believe, like many data donors, that the attribution must be preserved, then a licence which incorporates the viral provisions is necessary. The ODbL does incorporate attribution. From a given work you can find

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

2010-08-22 Thread Mike Collinson
At 05:50 PM 22/08/2010, David Groom wrote: Intent: (1) Section 4 always was intended to allow and encourage governmental organisation imports that require attribution under the standard terms without need for derogation. (2) Maintain maximum flexibility for future choices. The license used in

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

2010-08-14 Thread Mike Collinson
At 10:11 AM 13/08/2010, 80n wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:47 PM, David Groom mailto:revi...@pacific-rim.netrevi...@pacific-rim.net wrote: b) Ignoring the Yahoo data, but taking any data that may have had a PD or CC-BY-SA clause that has be used in import, since these are general permissions

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Questions on the Contributors Term

2010-08-12 Thread Mike Collinson
At 12:02 PM 11/08/2010, David Groom wrote: 2) Where does PD data (mainly TIGER, NHS, NPS, NAIP imagery, USGS imagery) fall with regards to contributor terms, specifically You have **explicit** permission from the rights holder to submit the Contents and grant the licence below?' The general

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OSM content on locked platforms

2010-04-05 Thread Mike Collinson
Interesting, the CC BY SA quote does rather suggest that such an application is not CC BY SA compliant. Two linked observations almost lead me to believe that the closed nature of a platform is irrelevant, what is important is the effort made by the individual developer to keep data/images

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Import of Korea from Yahoo

2010-02-23 Thread Mike Collinson
Jonas, Getting in touch with the user courteously is certainly the best start. Andrew Errington, CC'd, hosts talk-ko and may also be able to help. If first steps do not resolve, the OSMF Foundation's Data Working Group [1] can provide help. Most or all are members of this list anyway. Mike

[OSM-legal-talk] Translations of Contributor Terms

2010-02-16 Thread Mike Collinson
When the new Contributor Terms are really complete (not yet) we will need Italian and French translations pretty fast in accordance with the laws of those countries for the original version to be in native language. We have a couple of avenues that may help us with that but nothing finalised

[OSM-legal-talk] Contributor Terms draft changes

2010-02-14 Thread Mike Collinson
We are wanting to introduce dual-licensing for *new* registrants as soon as we have the new Contributor Terms nailed down. That means a final review of the current wording by legal counsel and then I'll ask for any last(?) comments from this list. We've made some changes in order to try and

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

2009-06-28 Thread Mike Collinson
At 03:57 PM 26/06/2009, Peter Miller wrote: My concern here is to try to avoid creating an interesting target for 'carpet baggers' who may wish to 'privatise' OSM in the way that the mutual building societies were privatised in the past ten years in the UK.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OSM data grant

2009-06-19 Thread Mike Collinson
At 06:00 PM 18/06/2009, Russ Nelson wrote: On Jun 18, 2009, at 11:09 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Russ Nelson wrote: Yes, but your result has to be licensed under the CC-By-SA, which means that in principle, somebody could republish your composition. In practice, nobody has complained about

[OSM-legal-talk] ODbL 1.0 timetable

2009-04-27 Thread Mike Collinson
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 Released Both releases should appear at:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Substantial meaning

2009-04-25 Thread Mike Collinson
I've tried to capture all the comments made with some strawman wording below. Please feel free to cast arrows at it. I've also copied it to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_Licence/Use_Cases#What_constitutes_a_Substantial_extract I am not happy that I have captured 2 properly. I

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Substantial meaning

2009-04-24 Thread Mike Collinson
At 00:34 24/04/2009, Frederik Ramm wrote: 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. It hasn't been discussed a lot. I guess you

[OSM-legal-talk] ODbL 1.0 status update

2009-04-21 Thread Mike Collinson
The License Working Group met tonight (I'll publish minutes to http://foundation.openstreetmap.org on Thursday) and Jordan Hatcher of Open Data Commons participated. We requested a firm and desirably soon date for ODbL 1.0 so that everyone can get a chance to look at it. Jordan has kindly

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

2009-02-28 Thread Mike Collinson
Legal review of Use Case doco with original Use Case text is now available at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Use_Cases or go straight to http://foundation.openstreetmap.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/2008-02-28_legalreviewofosmlicenseusecases2.pdf

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] US local government data: negotiating license?

2008-10-06 Thread Mike Collinson
David, Unless I missed out, I don't think you got any replies to your message below? Let me stick my neck out and give a few hints on how to proceed. I am sure it could be improved and others might like to comment on suitability. A boilerplate has been suggested before and it would be good

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] US local government data: negotiating license?

2008-10-06 Thread Mike Collinson
At 06:06 PM 6/10/2008, Gervase Markham wrote: Mike Collinson wrote: A good general method is to flip things around, explain what you are going to do with the data and ask them to contact you by, say, the end of the month if the use does NOT meet their terms of use. I think that is both