Am 06.07.2011 20:31, schrieb John Smith:
On 6 July 2011 18:20, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen
<g.grem...@cetest.nl> wrote:
[<GG>] I was not talking about copyright. Copyright laws are of no use
in the digital era,
You were talking about databases, however databases can still store
copyrightable content, in this case it's copyright that we're talking
about, if copyright weren't an issue the database could just be
relicensed, but there is copyright involved so it can't.
No, no, no, we are going through this slow and painful process because
the OSMF stated
that it would ask each contributor to re-license their data, simply
because that's the
right thing to do.
That does not imply that individual contributors actually hold any
rights in the data they
contributed. As we know, that is a difficult question and depends on
jurisdiction and so
on, and my take on it would be: probably not. For all practical purposes
we are simply
pretending that such rights exist and it just doesn't make sense to
spend hours arguing
about if moving a node creates a derivative work, because again -we are
just pretending-.
Because the whole thing is more an ethical question than a legal one, I
have suggested
before (on talk-de) the following resolution objects (points and ways)
created by CT accepters
stay in, in all version, objects created by CT objectors get thrown out
in all versions. Nice and
symmetric and equally distributes the pain.
Simon
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