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 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 to agree to

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 shune

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

2010-11-19 Thread Simon Ward
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 09:30:20PM -0500, Richard Weait wrote: > who criticize CT v1.0. What do you think of the current draft of the > contributor terms? Is this an improvement? What aspects address your > concerns regarding previous versions? What aspects could be further > improved and how?

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 impr

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

2010-11-19 Thread Rob Myers
Oops. Sorry about that. :-( - rob "Mike Linksvayer" wrote: >On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Rob Myers 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

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 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 C

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 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 data, then any ad

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 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 not

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 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 open i

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", "carto

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

2010-11-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 11/19/10 15:38, Ed Avis wrote: That's one reason why I think a dual licence under both the proposed new licences and the existing CC-BY-SA is a good idea - because it provides a guarantee beyond doubt that all currently allowed uses of the map data will still be okay. For me, as a PD

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 Ed Avis
Frederik Ramm 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 - bu

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 Rob Myers
On 11/19/2010 11:22 AM, Ed Avis wrote: Anthony 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. ;-) - Rob.

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

2010-11-19 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 6:24 AM, Ed Avis wrote: > Frederik Ramm 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 un

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

2010-11-19 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 6:24 AM, Ed Avis wrote: > Frederik Ramm 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 un

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

2010-11-19 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 6:22 AM, Ed Avis wrote: > Anthony 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

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 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 mailing list leg

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

2010-11-19 Thread Ed Avis
Frederik Ramm 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 contents

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

2010-11-19 Thread Ed Avis
Anthony 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

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 thi