Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Viral can be nice

2010-04-21 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 22 April 2010 01:26, Frederik Ramm wrote: > This is a serious limitation and leads to many pretty maps *not* being > made, or being made with non-OSM data. "How is that bad"? You tell me. > Given a choice of > > (a) all maps can be made, but sharing them is a the maker's discretion > > versus >

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Viral can be nice

2010-04-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
Tim, > OSM is not essentially anything at its core. It is different things to > different people. I'm talking about the sentence that defines OSM at the top of our Wiki page, which in all likelihood has been there in this form when most of us signed up. If you sign up to a project which claim

[OSM-legal-talk] Viral can be nice

2010-04-21 Thread TimSC
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > Maybe you do. Personally I'm pretty fond of the feature we have now > where I know that any map that uses my CC-BY-SA data is freely > available to me under the same license. > Yes, that is a good intention of the current license. Although SA has its problems, i

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Viral can be nice

2010-04-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
Ævar, > Pretty much they only thing I've ever gotten out of OSM personally > (besides exercise and being able to use it on my GPS) is being able to > use the various map renderings by ITO World, CloudMade etc. under the > same free license as the data. That may well be; but OSM is not, in its cor

[OSM-legal-talk] Viral can be nice

2010-04-21 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 07:31, Frederik Ramm wrote: > We *do* want to allow releasing produced works under PD. Note that we > are talking produced works here, not the data istself! Maybe you do. Personally I'm pretty fond of the feature we have now where I know that any map that uses my CC-BY-SA

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CC-BY-SA and contractual obligations

2010-04-21 Thread Oliver Kuehn (skobbler)
Hi, "The CC-BY-SA license permits you the free distribution of any data you download from my site, however if you make use of that right, this contract shall be terminated immediately and any advance fees paid by you will not be refunded." you can put this statement in your terms & conditions b