Re: [OSM-legal-talk] legal FAQ license

2010-10-14 Thread Ed Avis
Frederik Ramm frede...@... writes: And of course we are using the same rules for taking and giving, or? Same amounts of data we consider non-copyrightable and keep therefore in the database can be taken out from the new ODbl-OSM database as if they were PD? ODbL's concept if you take a lot of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] legal FAQ license

2010-10-14 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Richard Weait wrote: Is there some OSM contribution or edit that is so mechanical and/or so insignificant that it need never be considered for copyright or database right? Any edit made by a robot - e.g. one that fixes spelling mistakes - certainly qualifies for never be considered for

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] legal FAQ license

2010-10-14 Thread Francis Davey
On 14 October 2010 09:07, Francis Davey fjm...@gmail.com wrote: I've not been following the detail of this discussion. One of my worries is that a lot of things are said - maybe off-hand - that turn into assumptions that feed into later discussion. Since this is an area of law

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] legal FAQ license

2010-10-14 Thread Rob Myers
On 10/14/2010 07:42 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, Richard Weait wrote: Is there some OSM contribution or edit that is so mechanical and/or so insignificant that it need never be considered for copyright or database right? Any edit made by a robot - e.g. one that fixes spelling mistakes -