Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licensing implications when extending POI with external metadata

2011-01-21 Thread Joao Neto
Thank for clarifying Anthony. I apologize for the mistake. Not the best way to start posting in this forum. I'm actually aware that the current license is CC-BY-SA 2.0 and this was an unfortunate copy/paste mistake. I do believe that my original questions still stand, as both licenses have a

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] LWN article on license change and Creative Commons

2011-01-21 Thread Andrew Harvey
Thanks for posting this Kai. Those comments from Creative Commons look promising. On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to link to a recent interesting article on the OSM licensing change on LWN (Linux Weekly News) as I haven't seen it be mentioned

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] LWN article on license change and Creative Commons

2011-01-21 Thread Rob Myers
On 21/01/11 00:02, Kai Krueger wrote: I'll try and paraphrase some of the main points and hope I don't missrepresent anyone. I am *very* glad that CC are now publicly acknowledging the harm that Science Commons has caused. I don't know how far CC can go with the 4.0 licences, but Mike's

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licensing implications when extending POI with external metadata

2011-01-21 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
Hi, João, On Friday 21 January 2011 00:28:21 Joao Neto wrote: I'm planning to develop an Android application that displays OpenStreetMap POIs near you and complements the OSM data with data coming from other sources (address, phone numbers, user notes, etc.). What are the license

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] LWN article on license change and Creative Commons

2011-01-21 Thread Andrew
Kai Krueger kakrueger@... writes: It also has a 60 entry long comment section. Although much is a rehash of the the endless debates on OSMs own communication channels, there are also a set of comments by user mlinksva from Creative Commons (e.g. http://lwn.net/Articles/422754/) that seem to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] LWN article on license change and Creative Commons

2011-01-21 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Andrew wynnd...@lavabit.com wrote: I hope there is no turf war brewing between Creative Commons and Open Data Commons. I wouldn't know. On the other hand, Mike Linksvayer, from Creative Commons, joined the License Working Group conference call on 18 Jan 2011.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] LWN article on license change and Creative Commons

2011-01-21 Thread Ed Avis
I think there has been a bit of a crossed wire between 'scientific data' and 'anything which can be considered as data'. The position that scientific data sets should be placed in the public domain seems reasonable (IMHO) but it is not directly relevant to OSM because we are not a science

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licensing implications when extending POI with external metadata

2011-01-21 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Joao Neto joao.p.n...@gmail.com wrote: Great points Anthony. Thanks for sharing! To be honest I think the share-alike aspect of the license is too restrictive and working against the project. The most successful projects in the open source / community space

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licensing implications when extending POI with external metadata

2011-01-21 Thread andrzej zaborowski
Hi Joao, On 21 January 2011 16:32, Joao Neto joao.p.n...@gmail.com wrote: Great points Anthony. Thanks for sharing! To be honest I think the share-alike aspect of the license is too restrictive and working against the project. The most successful projects in the open source / community space

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] LWN article on license change and Creative Commons

2011-01-21 Thread Anthony
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: I think there has been a bit of a crossed wire between 'scientific data' and 'anything which can be considered as data'.  The position that scientific data sets should be placed in the public domain seems reasonable (IMHO) but