Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Best license for future tiles?

2010-11-19 Thread Rob Myers
On 11/18/2010 08:46 PM, andrzej zaborowski wrote: They can fairly be described as CC because you can exercise all the rights that the CC licence grants you over the CC-licenced work. When I'm given a set of tiles under a CC license (which disclaims the database rights in some versions), I

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Best license for future tiles?

2010-11-19 Thread Ed Avis
Anthony o...@... writes: So a license from, say, MapQuest, granting you permission to use the tiles under CC-BY-SA, only covers MapQuest's copyright, ...in which case, surely, we have the situation that in general, CC-BY-SA map tiles cannot be made from the OSM data, Well, depends on what you

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Best license for future tiles?

2010-11-19 Thread Ed Avis
Frederik Ramm frede...@... writes: One thing I should point out, though, is that the ODbL does not *say* you can make Produced Works and release them as CC-BY. I think it does, at least if taken together with DbCL as planned for OSM. As I understand it the DbCL only applies to the 'database

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Best license for future tiles?

2010-11-19 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: Since the data isn't covered by BY-SA, if I recreate the data it isn't covered by BY-SA. Is the data covered by ODbL? If you recreate the data is it covered by ODbL? ___ legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Best license for future tiles?

2010-11-19 Thread Rob Myers
On 11/19/2010 11:22 AM, Ed Avis wrote: Anthonyo...@... writes: On the other hand, I'd say the tiles aren't *really* under CC-BY-SA, if the underlying data is subject to the ODbL. Right. (If your interpretation of the ODbL is correct - which others here disagree with.) At length. ;-) -

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Best license for future tiles?

2010-11-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
Anthony, On 11/19/10 14:38, Anthony wrote: If the latter, then no, it doesn't, in itself, allow you to make a produced work, because a produced work is made from a substantial extract of data. You know what? After the license change I'll make a few produced works that way and see if OSMF sue

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Best license for future tiles?

2010-11-19 Thread Ed Avis
Frederik Ramm frede...@... writes: If the latter, then no, it doesn't, in itself, allow you to make a produced work, because a produced work is made from a substantial extract of data. You know what? After the license change I'll make a few produced works that way and see if OSMF sue me. Sure

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Best license for future tiles?

2010-11-19 Thread Rob Myers
On 11/19/2010 01:43 PM, Anthony wrote: The ODbL does not *say* (i.e. contain the text) you can make Produced Works and release them as CC-BY. Combined with the DbCL it might be the case that you can do so, but the ODbL does not *say* you can do so. It contains, in combination with the DbCL,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Best license for future tiles?

2010-11-19 Thread Rob Myers
On 11/19/2010 02:47 PM, Rob Myers wrote: So if what Christine O'Donnell^D^D^Dyou are saying is correct the ODbL doesn't allow you to make proprietary produced works either. And, while I have the text of BY-SA 2.0 generic open in front of me, I can't find any mention of the words map,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Best license for future tiles?

2010-11-19 Thread 80n
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: On 11/19/2010 02:47 PM, Rob Myers wrote: So if what Christine O'Donnell^D^D^Dyou are saying is correct the ODbL doesn't allow you to make proprietary produced works either. And, while I have the text of BY-SA 2.0 generic

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Best license for future tiles?

2010-11-19 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: On 11/19/2010 01:43 PM, Anthony wrote:  The ODbL does not *say* (i.e. contain the text) you can make Produced Works and release them as CC-BY. Combined with the DbCL it might be the case that you can do so, but the ODbL does

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Best license for future tiles?

2010-11-19 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: For me, as a PD advocate, the more licenses you license the stuff under the better as it will combine the loopholes of every single one. If, however, you intend to protect our data by putting it under a share-alike

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Best license for future tiles?

2010-11-19 Thread Mike Linksvayer
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: On 11/18/2010 08:46 PM, andrzej zaborowski wrote: They can fairly be described as CC because you can exercise all the rights that the CC licence grants you over the CC-licenced work. When I'm given a set of tiles under a

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Best license for future tiles?

2010-11-19 Thread Rob Myers
Oops. Sorry about that. :-( - rob Mike Linksvayer m...@creativecommons.org wrote: On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: On 11/18/2010 08:46 PM, andrzej zaborowski wrote: They can fairly be described as CC because you can exercise all the rights that the CC

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-19 Thread Simon Ward
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 09:49:56PM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote: ODbL in itself has an upgrade clause, too; it allows derived databases (including of course a complete copy) to be licensed under (section 4.4) I think the upgrade clause in ODbL is sufficiently flexible for possible licence

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [DRAFT] Contributor Terms 1.2

2010-11-19 Thread Simon Ward
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 09:15:16PM +1100, Andrew Harvey wrote: If OSMF is not stoping existing contributors to continue to upload their CC BY-SA work without agreeing the the CTs, perhaps new users should not be required to agree to the CTs to sign up. Otherwise some new users will be shuned

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [DRAFT] Contributor Terms 1.2

2010-11-19 Thread 80n
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Simon Ward si...@bleah.co.uk wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 09:15:16PM +1100, Andrew Harvey wrote: If OSMF is not stoping existing contributors to continue to upload their CC BY-SA work without agreeing the the CTs, perhaps new users should not be required