[OSM-legal-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-14 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
I've split this from the original thread before it derails the one it was in any further, and cc'd legal-talk. On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:57, Andy Allan gravityst...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, Ęvar Arnfjörš Bjarmason wrote:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

2010-07-14 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 13:05, James Livingston li...@sunsetutopia.com wrote: On 14/07/2010, at 10:28 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: I'm no expert on this sort of thing, but there are probably a lot of well known pitfalls to avoid when trying to run an inclusive international project

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Proposed human readable contributor terms

2010-05-14 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 21:36, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 14/05/10 21:19, Ęvar Arnfjörš Bjarmason wrote: I've created a proposed version of the human readable contributor terms on the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Database_License/Contributor_Terms/Human_readable

[OSM-legal-talk] Viral can be nice

2010-04-21 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 07:31, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org 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

[OSM-legal-talk] Are closed issues really closed post ODbL data removal plan

2009-12-06 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Apologies in advance if this is fanning the flames on the currently ongoing license flamewar but I have a (hopefully) innocent query on the matter. Last year I asked what was the plan exactly for removing any CC-BY-SA content left in the database after the now-scheduled changeover:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Proper attribution

2009-10-25 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Assuming for a moment that my contributions to OSM are copyrightable and the CC-BY-SA license is valid, then if I license my data CC-BY-SA I have the right to request anyone using my data, or building or using derived

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] distribution

2009-10-02 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Greg Holloway peanutzkingpeng...@hotmail.com wrote: I hope i have picked the right list to ask these questions, please alow me to explain myself; I am a 4x4 off-roader and i have a laptop on the dash of my vehicle running memory map. I have been searching the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Monopoly City Streets

2009-09-09 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2009/9/9 Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es: OK, so it seems that they're using GMaps as the background, and OSM as the actual street data provider. See: http://chippy2005.googlepages.com/MonopolyCityStreets_1252505633167.png

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Monopoly City Streets

2009-09-09 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Peter Millarpeter.mil...@yahoo.com wrote: I think that OSM is entitled to ask if the Creative Commons license has been complied with. The Monopoly City Streets game is produced by Tribal DDB which is part of Hasbro Inc., one of the biggest toy manufacturers

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] signup notice

2009-06-16 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Ulf Mölleruse...@ulfm.de wrote: Stefan Baebler schrieb: the all data created by use of any tools which connect to openstreetmap.org  part can be problematic, as my browser connects to openstreetmap.org. Heck, my computer and router also connect there, and so

[OSM-legal-talk] Vague license agreement text when creating a new osm.org user

2009-06-01 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
The text a new user gets when signing up is hte following: (at http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/new ) By creating an account, you agree that all work uploaded to openstreetmap.org and all data created by use of any tools which connect to openstreetmap.org is to be (non-exclusively) licensed

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Removal of CC-SA-BY licensed data from OSM after ODbL takes effect

2008-12-10 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Gustav Foseid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well... If I am not mistaken, people closely involved with CC have argued that OSM is in the public domain and only the graphical maps are creative and covered by copyright. You might call that a transition strategy, if not

[OSM-legal-talk] Removal of CC-SA-BY licensed data from OSM after ODbL takes effect

2008-12-09 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
The ODbL FAQ[1] currently has two questions[2][3] that deal with the planned removal of the CC-BY-SA licensed data that will still be left in the OSM database after the switchover to ODbL is made and users will be asked to opt to relicense their contributions under the new license. What I'd like