Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-09-01 Thread Jane Smith
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 1:12 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: On 1 September 2010 07:21, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: I think that most people would say that's a feature, not a problem. But you aren't asking most people since you don't want to know the true answer.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-09-01 Thread Jane Smith
2010/8/31 Dirk-Lüder Kreie osm-l...@deelkar.net Am 31.08.2010 12:30, schrieb Liz: I was referring to user-mapped data. Imports have to fit the license, not the other way around. At the time of import the data imported fitted the licence. Perhaps you had better look back at the archives

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-09-01 Thread John Smith
On 1 September 2010 16:16, Jane Smith janesmith...@gmail.com wrote: But we know that his boks should be burnt. How can we allow Fredderik to spread the gospel in his books when we know the 'new license' should be brought down? Tip for next time, be less overt, it allows the ruse to go on for

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-09-01 Thread Jane Smith
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 6:59 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: On 1 September 2010 16:16, Jane Smith janesmith...@gmail.com wrote: But we know that his boks should be burnt. How can we allow Fredderik to spread the gospel in his books when we know the 'new license' should be

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-09-01 Thread John Smith
On 1 September 2010 17:06, Jane Smith janesmith...@gmail.com wrote: I need to gt my Dinner here in Sydney, but back later! Did you have a good flight from Germany? ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-09-01 Thread Jane Smith
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:10 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: On 1 September 2010 17:06, Jane Smith janesmith...@gmail.com wrote: I need to gt my Dinner here in Sydney, but back later! Did you have a good flight from Germany? Yar I ist eating mine fritter John. can you

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-09-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, John Smith wrote: On 1 September 2010 16:04, Jane Smith janesmith...@gmail.com wrote: John Smith and I know the Truth. Frederik's books should be burnt. He is an Apostle of the 'new license'. I would have said apostle of the CT because I highly doubt he'll be content with the license...

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-09-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 3:35 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 September 2010 17:30, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: only the most presumptuous person would believe that a license they choose today will automatically be the best license for the project for all time.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-09-01 Thread John Smith
On 1 September 2010 17:58, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: That you claim that Frederik, or LWG, or OSMF Board are are trying to speak for both people now and people in the future in the very same breath is bold. You know perfectly well that term three gives the decision on future

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-09-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, John Smith wrote: On 1 September 2010 17:30, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: only the most presumptuous person would believe that a license they choose today will automatically be the best license for the project for all time. The sheer arrogance of all this is astounding, you

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-09-01 Thread John Smith
On 1 September 2010 18:03, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: I think it is nothing but selfish. You don't even know if you'll be in OSM As I've stated in the past, which you conveniently keep ignoring, over looking or misunderstanding... You are putting end users of the data ahead of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-09-01 Thread 80n
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 3:35 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 September 2010 17:30, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: only the most presumptuous person would believe that a license they choose

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-09-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:01 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 September 2010 17:58, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: That you claim that Frederik, or LWG, or OSMF Board are are trying to speak for both people now and people in the future in the very same breath is

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-09-01 Thread Rob Myers
On 09/01/2010 09:15 AM, 80n wrote: Nobody is saying that CC-BY-SA is perfect. But they are saying that it is unsuitable. It isn't but it works. Look at how quickly Waze reacted. Not bad for a broken license, eh? Rely on people's good intentions is not a general solution. The great

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-09-01 Thread John Smith
On 1 September 2010 18:30, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Still in OppositeLand, JohnSmith? Can't figure out any better insults? The Contributor Terms trust future OSM contributors to make the right choices for future OSM licenses. Do you trust current and future OSM At least be

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-09-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:15 AM, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: Frederik's argument that we cannot predict what future generations will want is quite fallacious. Really? What will future generations want, 80n? I predict that future generations will want Flying cars sure, but we were promised

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-09-01 Thread John Smith
On 1 September 2010 18:46, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On the other hand, six-ish years ago there was no concern that we would have to be compatible with OS data. Now, they publish open data And how compatible will the CTs be with OS data exactly?

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-09-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:37 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, we contributors are being treated with contempt alright, besides not being asked what we contributors want, since this whole thing started it's been nothing but dirty tricks to try and get the license changed.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-09-01 Thread John Smith
On 1 September 2010 19:07, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: If you don't want the effects of a PD OSM for geodata, ODbL is a better way of ensuring this than BY-SA The devil you know is better than the devil you don't At this stage I have every reason to believe the CT and now possible the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-09-01 Thread Andy Allan
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:37 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, we contributors are being treated with contempt alright, besides not being asked what we contributors want, since this whole thing started

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-09-01 Thread John Smith
On 1 September 2010 19:12, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Every time OSM contributors have been asked, they have supported ODbL Is this like all the laywers that think the ODBL is great too? about 12,500 contributors make up about 99% of the data, how many of those agree with your point

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-09-01 Thread Maarten Deen
On Wed, 1 Sep 2010 05:12:21 -0400, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:37 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, we contributors are being treated with contempt alright, besides not being asked what we contributors want, since this whole thing

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-09-01 Thread Andy Allan
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:31 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 September 2010 19:22, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: And wage a campaign of reverting pages on the wiki[1], or hiding major Shhh don't mention the thread on the tagging list about this, it might

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-09-01 Thread John Smith
On 1 September 2010 19:38, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: Please, stop being so childish about all this. Most people would be mortified if they realised how much trouble they were causing, even inadvertently. Whereas you seem to be relishing it, and egging yourself on to annoy

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-09-01 Thread John Smith
On 1 September 2010 19:59, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: My comments have nothing to do with the debate or any issues you Then perhaps you should have used another thread with a more appropriate subject line to avoid confusion? My comments are intended to address your disruptive

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-09-01 Thread Liz
On Wed, 1 Sep 2010, Richard Weait wrote: The OSMF are OpenStreetMap contributors. However OpenStreetMap contributors != OSMF because OSMF is a subset of contributors (although being a contributor is not a prerequisite, so this may not be completely true).

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-09-01 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 3:30 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Contrary to what John seems to believe, I would be quite content with the new license - not exactly in love with it, but content is a good word I think When did you come to that conclusion, and why? Weren't you opposed

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-09-01 Thread Anthony
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:03 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: I think there may be a misunderstanding here. The clause 3 in the contributor terms is precisely there because we want to *avoid* speaking for people in the future. Anyone arguing against that basically says: Well of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-09-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
John, there's hardly a single message of yours in which I fail so find something inappropriate. For example this: John Smith wrote: On 1 September 2010 21:21, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: The devil is in the details. CT+ODBL has a lot of fine print... is just unsuitable for a

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-09-01 Thread John Smith
On 2 September 2010 05:14, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: there's hardly a single message of yours in which I fail so find something inappropriate. I've made several comments that you do like wise, you keep claiming this change is needed to make OSM more free, but that's dishonest

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
vowed (elsewhere) that they will continue to be deliberately disruptive on the OSM lists. I'd suggest the best course of action is, as ever, Please Do Not Feed The Trolls. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Re-OSM-legal-talk-OSM-talk-Community-vs

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-31 Thread Liz
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Please Do Not Feed The Trolls. The person who has chosen the pseudonym Jane Smith has a right to have their point heard. I would not consider this person to be a troll, whether or not I am the person recalled as intending to be publicly

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-31 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 04:41:16AM +, Jane Smith wrote: copyright are the chains of the modern worker, holding to the means of Production. We all know copyright has maps. But data underneath is important so that is what we workers should control. No copyright was the true reason for

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-31 Thread Dirk-Lüder Kreie
Am 30.08.2010 13:43, schrieb John Smith: 2010/8/30 Dirk-Lüder Kreie osm-l...@deelkar.net: data will not be available under ODbL temporarily. I'm very sure it will be re-mapped, probably within less than a year. I disagree, especially without access to some of the existing data sources, and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-31 Thread Dirk-Lüder Kreie
Am 31.08.2010 06:36, schrieb Anthony: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: You are still assuming that copyright is universally valid despite court cases that demonstrate that it isn't. What does that mean? Copyright is not universally valid? Even Iraq has

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-31 Thread Liz
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Dirk-Lüder Kreie wrote: data will not be available under ODbL temporarily. I'm very sure it will be re-mapped, probably within less than a year. I disagree, especially without access to some of the existing data sources, and so far no one is offering to come to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-31 Thread Dirk-Lüder Kreie
Am 31.08.2010 12:30, schrieb Liz: I was referring to user-mapped data. Imports have to fit the license, not the other way around. At the time of import the data imported fitted the licence. Perhaps you had better look back at the archives for March 08 and see the discussion over the LINZ

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-31 Thread John Smith
2010/8/31 Dirk-Lüder Kreie osm-l...@deelkar.net: Are you suggesting that one contributor should have power over many, just because they contributed more data? Because that seems what you are saying by using the import as an argument against the CT and the ODbL relicensing. At this stage

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-31 Thread Grant Slater
On 30 August 2010 10:36, Chris Browet c...@semperpax.com wrote: As far as I understand the licenses, nobody is permitted to fork the OSM data without permissions, and it is thus not truly open: - with CC-BY-SA, you'd have to ask every contributor the permission to fork their data (or is only

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-31 Thread Dirk-Lüder Kreie
Am 31.08.2010 12:56, schrieb Liz: On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Dirk-Lüder Kreie wrote: Am 31.08.2010 12:30, schrieb Liz: I was referring to user-mapped data. Imports have to fit the license, not the other way around. At the time of import the data imported fitted the licence. Perhaps you had better

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-31 Thread Anthony
2010/8/31 Dirk-Lüder Kreie osm-l...@deelkar.net: Am 31.08.2010 06:36, schrieb Anthony: What does that mean?  Copyright is not universally valid?  Even Iraq has copyright now.  May not be universal, but 99.9% of the world has copyright. Iran's copyright protects only works by Iranians.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-31 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:31 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: I'm the list administrator for legal-talk. I'm not quite sure what offence 'Jane Smith' might have committed that would cause you to want her to be banned. She is clearly posting under a fake name: so are at least

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-31 Thread Rob Myers
On 08/31/2010 03:09 PM, Anthony wrote: So that's all allowed? Okay then. Let the games begin. I can create a few extra gmail accounts to troll the list with too. I think it's more that we should ignore (people who we think are) obvious trolls. I'm not sure that Marxist views on

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-31 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, 80n wrote: An ODbL fork would not have same rights to the data as OSMF would have. It would be a somewhat asymmetrical fork. You cannot fork the substance of the contributor terms. True, but I believe this discussion was about whether you can fork the future ODbL OSM without having to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-31 Thread John Smith
On 1 September 2010 07:21, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: I think that most people would say that's a feature, not a problem. But you aren't asking most people since you don't want to know the true answer. ___ legal-talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-30 Thread Simon Ward
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 07:24:25AM +0200, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Someone in Germany might contribute data under CC-By-SA and be bound by it, and someone in the US might extract that data as quasi-PD

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-30 Thread Rob Myers
On 08/30/2010 01:21 AM, John Smith wrote: You are still making the assumption that copyright isn't valid at all, to the best of my knowledge there has been no court case about map data. You are still assuming that copyright is universally valid despite court cases that demonstrate that it

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-30 Thread John Smith
On 30 August 2010 20:12, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: No, this is about caring about the stated aims of the project rather than fetishising a licence that is not even recommended for use on data by its own authors. I care less about the license than the data, and the only way to ensure

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-30 Thread Liz
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010, Rob Myers wrote: If OSM ends up asking governments to reduce people's freedom to use map data in order to restore that freedom, do you really think that would be a good idea? This is a new concept on the list, that OSM starts negotiations with governments over licensing

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-30 Thread Dirk-Lüder Kreie
Am 30.08.2010 12:16, schrieb John Smith: On 30 August 2010 20:12, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: No, this is about caring about the stated aims of the project rather than fetishising a licence that is not even recommended for use on data by its own authors. I care less about the license

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-30 Thread John Smith
2010/8/30 Dirk-Lüder Kreie osm-l...@deelkar.net: data will not be available under ODbL temporarily. I'm very sure it will be re-mapped, probably within less than a year. I disagree, especially without access to some of the existing data sources, and so far no one is offering to come to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-30 Thread James Livingston
On 30/08/2010, at 3:24 PM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: I think that was already sorted out under the issue of wikipedia point importing, the OSM data is under the jurisdiction of England and has to obey english copyright law. no? No, people are bound by the copyright law where they

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-30 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: With a leaky license like the CC-By-SA, the project as a whole gets the worst of both worlds, PD and share-alike. And with ODbL, they get the worst of three worlds, PD, share-alike, and EULA hell.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-30 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: On 08/30/2010 01:21 AM, John Smith wrote: You are still making the assumption that copyright isn't valid at all, to the best of my knowledge there has been no court case about map data. You are still assuming that copyright

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-30 Thread Jane Smith
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: On 08/30/2010 01:21 AM, John Smith wrote: You are still making the assumption that copyright isn't valid at all, to the best of my knowledge there has been

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-30 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 8:21 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: You also seem to care more about legal technicalities than the spirit of the license, maybe some other map company could come in and take the data and just use it, but then it becomes much harder for them to in turn

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-30 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Jane Smith janesmith...@gmail.com wrote: copyright are the chains of the modern worker, holding to the means of Production. Are there any moderators here? Can we get this troll banned please. ___ legal-talk mailing

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-30 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
I second that. Jane Smith janesmith...@gmail.com this is a fake account, just causing problems. On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Jane Smith janesmith...@gmail.com wrote: copyright are the chains of the modern worker, holding to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-30 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 6:49 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: Maybe we shouldn't abandon the relicensing effort, but start a new relicensing effort, focussed on fixing the problems with CC-BY-SA without adding on a dozen other special interest fixes like Produced Works and Contributor Terms

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-30 Thread Jane Smith
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:55 AM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: I second that. Jane Smith janesmith...@gmail.com this is a fake account, just causing problems. I use fake account yes, like Anthony and John Smith and 80n. Fake fake fake. We have to