Re: [OSM-legal-talk] licenses suitable for import

On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 8:27 PM, Tobias Wendorff wrote: > Dear list, > > could you please recommend me licenses for releasing data to ODbL? > From my point of view, compatible licenses are CC-license without > "SA" and "BY" and (only if possible) CC0 and PD or

[OSM-legal-talk] ODBL and imports

I've been thinking about this for quite some time, but have not been able to come up with anything useful so please help me. I think we have a big problem with the choice of CT + ODBL, it is very unclear to people that ODBL data can not be uploaded to Openstreetmap. It's obvious that the data is

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Place name translations

While I agree with Richard, it might be interesting to know that Wikidata (a Wikimedia.de project) is licensed CC-0, and they copy data wholesale from Wikipedia. So ATM if someone wants to do it you can just copy it to wikidata and then osm.org. On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 5:34 PM, SomeoneElse

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Jonathan Harley j...@spiffymap.net wrote: On 02/03/13 16:17, Erik Johansson wrote: On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Jonathan Harley j...@spiffymap.net wrote: So - *must* you make your database of user-sourced geodata available to the OSM community? I answer

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

can most probably do it in OSM, if you can't do it with GMaps then OSM will allow it if you publish under ODBL. I just think it's much clear if I use GMaps as an example because there is a lot more material on what you can and can't do with GMaps. MvH Erik Johansson (Now back to skiing, with out

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

under ToS of Google Maps address searching (geocoding). Well except that part where you are not allowed to use Google products behind a firewall. So I do not agree at all with Alex Barth on this, but I've been wrong before. Lycka till, och ge inte upp! Erik Johansson

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Feedback requested ... OSM Poland data

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 05:43, Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com wrote: jaakkoh wrote Umh. Of course other (as in any) maps can be used for _some_ level of verification (such as: oh, there seems to b a rd here! I should go out and survey that!) -- Or should I rather say navigation to help in

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Feedback requested ... OSM Poland data

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 10:55, Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: - as an OSM community member, are you happy for the OSMF to make such a statement? I think OSMF should give UMP concession to use OSM data in their maps of Poland with their current license, like this: The OSMF acknowledges

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licensing the license

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 17:08, Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: We have had a request for another big open organisation to re-use our contributor terms [1] and summary [2] . Both the terms and the summary are by default already published under CC-BY-SA 2.0.  However, my initial

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:55 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 July 2011 21:49, Andreas Perstinger andreas.perstin...@gmx.net wrote: But that doesn't mean that their content won't show up in a future ODBL

[OSM-legal-talk] JOSM and spam

Hi It would be great if someone could convince the JOSM people to remove the ODbL blurb in JOSM, people get scared and spam everyone who hasn't agreed to the new license. I do not appreciate getting lots of ODbL FUD spam, -- /emj ___ legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] JOSM and spam

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, On 11/24/2010 10:57 AM, Erik Johansson wrote: It would be great if someone could convince the JOSM people to remove the ODbL blurb in JOSM, people get scared and spam everyone who hasn't agreed to the new license

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] JOSM and spam

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Erik, Erik Johansson wrote: Yes I'm sure it has to do with JOSM Why are you sure? Have they told you so? Yes. And I'm very disappointed that people think mass mailing is ok, it's not informing people in any useful

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

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: 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

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OSM content on locked platforms

On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: I would be interested in your thoughts on the legal situation here. Is distributing an OSM-derived data set on such a closed platform still CC-BY-SA conformant? Could I, if I were selling such an app, just say: Here's

[OSM-legal-talk] European Union Inspire Directive

Is there someone who know more about the Inspire EU directive for Geodata from 2007, and can highlight things that are important for Openstreetmap? They are working on the implementation here in Sweden, it would be of great help to get any input. The only thing, I've found, that is interesting

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OSMF license change vote has started

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Simon Ward si...@bleah.co.uk wrote: alternative term is “reciprocal license”. Share Alike license seems like he correct term since that is in our current license. Viral is a weasel word, bellow the belt. ___

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL virality questions

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Erik Johansson wrote: Open Database License (ODbL) “Attribution and Share-Alike for Data/Databases” Yep. Exactly. CC-BY-SA, famously, allows you to combine different types of creative content as a collective

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL virality questions

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Erik Johansson wrote: If this is all there is to it then you can make a collective database out of anything that is not connected on a map level to OSM data. That doesn't seem very viral to me. OSM's mission

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL virality questions

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Matt Amos zerebub...@gmail.com wrote: i think the more useful case to most people will be to use the OSM data geographically. if i started beerintheOSM i'd want to use OSM for as much of the geographic data as possible - that's kinda the point of OSM isn't it?

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Grant for usage of a google mapmaper users data to me

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:44 PM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: Will you react calmly if Google send messages to every OSM contributor asking them to dual-license their data? Only if you can honestly answer yes should you proceed. HI there, I would never