Robin Paulson wrote: > one possible problem i can see: > it is a legal requirement of OSM to display that attribution and if > the tag is editable by anyone, then it can be changed, either through > malice, clumsiness or otherwise. this could lead to troublesome legal > wrangles > > it's been talked about regarding a couple of other issues that have > cropped up (the naming dispute over cyprus for instance) - maybe we > need to lock some information, and allow it only to be edited by > certain privileged administrators, who are held responsible for what > happens to it?
That you cannot prevent anyway. People can always download the data remove the data locally. Delete the data on the server and re-upload it. (or parts of it). Spaetz _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-talk