Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Maxspeed tags in Australia

2012-01-13 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 01/06/12 13:13, Nick Hocking wrote: Although the usefullness(or correctness) of these tags is not being discussed in talk-au, there appears to be a concensus (7-0) about removing them now. Ok, I've discussed this off-list with Nick and did a test run for 1000 (of roughly a quarter mill

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Maxspeed tags in Australia

2012-01-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 01/06/12 12:08, Nick Hocking wrote: "Is there a consensus in the Australian communitiy that these tags are worthless and should be removed" How many votes do I need :-) Well, nobody shouting "stop, stop, these tags are useful to me!" would already be a start. I can see only two ways

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Maxspeed tags in Australia

2012-01-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 01/06/12 11:38, Nick Hocking wrote: In this case it is essential to actually get rid of the maxspeed tags. The bot used a completly wrong algorithm and the data is dangerously wrong. Just today I drove down a high traffic road where OSM (curtesy of the bot) had the wrong max speed). It

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] feedback requested

2011-12-27 Thread Frederik Ramm
ssumed to be dervied from whatever the decliner put there. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] feedback requested

2011-12-27 Thread Frederik Ramm
aic note to the mapper but not copyright on the interpretation of that note made by someone else. I'm sure it is an issue that we must watch, and maybe try and prepare a list with all cases affected, and make spot checks to get an idea of how many false positives/negatives we get. B

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] feedback requested

2011-12-27 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 12/27/11 14:53, andrzej zaborowski wrote: * treat any tags contributed by a non-agreeing mapper as harmless if these tags are not present any more in the current version Did you manage to address your example of a user fixing a typo in the tag name (individually or for a large number

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] New rules for OSMI license change view

2011-12-27 Thread Frederik Ramm
(taking this to legal-talk) Russ, On 12/27/11 05:08, Russ Nelson wrote: But this way is still marked as "created by a nodecision user": http://osm.mapki.com/history/way.php?id=3753605 Well, maybe it was created, but the sins of the father do not pass onto the son. No part of what the nodecisio

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] feedback requested

2011-12-26 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 20:32:35 +0100 Frederik Ramm wrote: > I have prepared changes to the OSMI map that allow me to ... Activated now & notified talk and talk-de lists, on both the WTFE view and on the database accessed by plugins/license views in editors. Bye F

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] feedback requested

2011-12-25 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 13:48:24 + Dermot McNally wrote: > 1. Agreeing mapper maps the restaurant and names it > 2. Non-agreeing mapper adds the cuisine tag > 3. Agreeing mapper removes the cuisine tag and sets odbl=clean. He or > she does not have enough information to assert the cuisine tag

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] feedback requested

2011-12-24 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 21:32:21 + Dermot McNally wrote: > 1. This would, I suppose, mean that a formerly "tainted" node which > has both been moved and stripped of any "tainted" tags would also be > considered clean. Is this so Yes. > 2. Consider the case of a node that is mapped by an agr

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] feedback requested

2011-12-24 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:27:19 -0500 Richard Weait wrote: > - can node positions be cleaned by moving to a new position? I have prepared changes to the OSMI map that allow me to * treat untagged nodes as clean if moved by an agreeing mapper * treat any tags contributed by a non-agreeing mapp

[OSM-legal-talk] Apologies for misleading munin graphs

2011-12-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
uary which was a bit over-optimistic! I've fixed the configuration and the graphs are less euphemistic now. They are meant to inform, not to manipulate. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Relations and the license change

2011-12-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
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Re: [OSM-legal-talk] instead of replacing data can I just revert to the last known "clean" version?

2011-12-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 12/16/11 14:08, Steve Bennett wrote: ,,, suddenly isn't that clear-cut anymore. Has user C really surveyed the place, or has he maybe just run a bot that used complex rules to "fix" names? Do we have any clear policy spelling out what constitutes "clean"? No. Presumably there are so

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] instead of replacing data can I just revert to the last known "clean" version?

2011-12-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 12/16/11 12:12, Ed Avis wrote: I guess "ct=clean" would be better since there may be data which is usable under the CTs but is not yet distributable under ODbL+DbCL. But are we interested in such data? I mean - if there *was* data not usable under ODbL, then it would be a good idea to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] instead of replacing data can I just revert to the last known "clean" version?

2011-12-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
Maning, On 12/16/11 08:26, maning sambale wrote: As what the subjects says, instead of removing and recreating tainted data, I think it's best (in some cases) to revert to the last known clean version. This makes sense. Sometimes you will not even have to revert to a "last known clean versio

[OSM-legal-talk] License Change View on OSM Inspector

2011-12-12 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, I've added a world-wide license change map to OSM Inspector: http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=wtfe&lon=-1.80469&lat=35.88371&zoom=2&overlays=overview,wtfe_point_harmless,wtfe_line_harmless,wtfe_point_modified,wtfe_line_modified_cp,wtfe_line_modified,wtfe_point_created,wtfe_line_create

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Copyright status of OSM map data - publishable memo for USA

2011-12-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 12/08/2011 02:20 PM, Ed Avis wrote: They produced a written report I am intrigued by the joint authorship concept. If that was true (relatively) universally, then we could perhaps use that to force even those who haven't agreed to the license change to allow us (their co-authors) to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Poland

2011-12-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 12/06/2011 11:16 PM, Simon Poole wrote: Not that this is confidential, but this should have actually gone to the LWG. Happens to me all the time. Stupid auto-completion. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09"

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Community norms

2011-11-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 11/29/11 11:49, Ed Avis wrote: I think you have to be careful about going too far with community norms. Of course. They must not introduce new material, but they can be used to clarify areas where things aren't crystal clear. Community norms can serve to narrow the permission (as in

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
ensure share-alike. If it can be circumvented then it fails one of its main purposes. Oh, it does protect OSM's database all right, but drawing lines onto a printed-out image is not making a derived database (and frankly I wouldn't be all that interested in the geometry of tho

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 11/28/11 11:58, 80n wrote: That's a very fine line you are trying to draw. Yes, I agree it is difficult. I think that it is entirely possible to arrive at an identical end product through different processes, where one process has different license implications than the other. For e

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 11/28/11 10:43, 80n wrote: If you cannot reproduce the Produced Work 100% faithfully from the Derived Database in what sense does the Derived Database contain all of the information required to create the Produced Work? It doesn't, and it doesn't have to. Only in so far as the *database

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-27 Thread Frederik Ramm
e the database behind it. That, however, would have the consequence that you have to share the image itself, which would not be the case under the "Produced Works" provision. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] The detrimental effects of database

2011-11-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
agree - let's rather invest a little more work now and have a solid foundation for the future, than build on sand just to get it done quicker. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33"

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] The detrimental effects of database

2011-11-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 11/23/11 15:16, fk270...@fantasymail.de wrote: Currently, the LWG intends to delete all nodes ever created by decliners or non-responders. That is correct as far as I know. There is no contributor who has ever contributed even a 50% majority of nodes on these routes. However, they wou

[OSM-legal-talk] License Change and Object History

2011-10-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
ntains the data to fill all these "holes", this one being CC-By-SA licensed. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetma

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Refusing CT but declaring contributions as PD

2011-08-24 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 08/24/11 16:03, Simon Poole wrote: I think I've said this before, but any way you look at it, there is a big difference between TimSC and the US Census Bureau. I just can't see how we could use a mappers data without some kind of assurance that the mapper actually has the rights necessary

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] I want my access back

2011-08-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Simon Poole wrote: > With other words: please get a life. +1 I'm tired of hearing how people have been "disenfranchised" and "cannot continue to contribute" to OSM. They're talking as if they were in a wheelchair and we had just built a giant staircase at OSMF headquarters. But the truth

[OSM-legal-talk] Granting special powers (was: I want my access back)

2011-08-13 Thread Frederik Ramm
eally is a superset of the CT and will be accepted in lieu of those. I'd love to sign such a declaration myself but with the amount of Bing tracing I've done it would be difficult. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E00

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] I want my access back

2011-08-10 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 08/10/11 08:38, Stephan Knauss wrote: You're wrong with this. At least in the country I'm most active the transition to ODbL ready data is making huge progress. And it's not "someone else's" benefit, but a benefit for the whole community. I, too, am positively surprised by the speed and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] I want my access back

2011-08-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Frederik Ramm wrote: Gert, you seem to be under the impression that the license change process has somehow failed just because we're still handing out the planet under CC-BY-SA. But you are wrong; this has always been the case. Maybe that too, but I meant to write "this has a

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] I want my access back

2011-08-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
y we'd lose too much data; we'd rather patch things up *before* we switch. And this is not a recent change of plans; it was always planned to wait until it is feasible to make the switch. Personally, I expect it to happen in the first half of 2012 but I have no LWG inside knowledg

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbl and collective databases

2011-07-11 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 07/12/11 01:05, David Groom wrote: Well that's what I asked to this list on 17 June [1] , and you will see from the only answer received (which incendtally was from a member of the LWG) that an except of an ODbL database will always be a Derivative Database, and not an ODbL licensed datab

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Guidelines on interpretation of section 4.6 od ODbL

2011-07-10 Thread Frederik Ramm
he alterations to the Database (such as an algorithm)..." ie a file which contains all the alterations OR a file which contains the method. I don't think it matters but I dont't think it makes sense to require that the method be described "in a file". Bye Fred

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

2011-07-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
Simon, Andreas, all, when discussing these things with the person who goes by the pseudonym of "John Smith", keep in mind that he is spending a lot of time building/supporting an OpenStreetMap "fork". The forkers, as I like to call them, are driven by all kinds of motivations, the most be

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

2011-07-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
(or I failed to mention explicitly) that we are talking about nodes _that are used by a way_. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-ta

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

2011-07-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
ercise judgement but there will always be an element of judgement. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

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

2011-07-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
2 is clearly a derived work of version 1. You could also say: no, because the information "added" in version 2 (new coordinates) overwrites all information that was there from version 1, so there is nothing left to be "protected". Opinions? Bye Frederik -- Frede

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Exception in Open Data License/Community Guidelines for temporary file

2011-06-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
etation. Ok, so my PNG file was "intended" to extract the data. It didn't work out in the end but the intention was there... ) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs are not full copyright assignment

2011-06-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
ail to see how more individual choice should achieve that. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Exception in Open Data License/Community Guidelines for temporary file

2011-06-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
abase behind it. Our community norm currently says it is a database if it was intended to extract the data... some time in the past someone said "it is a database if you say it is one". Maybe that wasn't so bad after all. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Exception in Open Data License/Community Guidelines for temporary file

2011-06-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
cares what happened in the black box, because you only have to share the last in a chain of derived databases that leads to a produced work, right? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs are not full copyright assignment

2011-06-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
uld look like, we should determine what flexibility we have, if any. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Exception in Open Data License/Community Guidelines for temporary file

2011-06-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 06/29/11 05:21, James Livingston wrote: I don't think it would be treated differently, because I believe that an in-memory data structure would still be a database (in the ODbL and database right sense of "database"). I don't see how the storage mechanism makes a difference. Would you t

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs are not full copyright assignment

2011-06-26 Thread Frederik Ramm
message makes sense, and it would not be a bad thing to have these things spelled out in the CT. Alas, I fear that it is now too late to change them in this respect; changing the future-relicense-process in the CT would in my opinion render the existing CT agreements invalid and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Exception in Open Data License/Community Guidelines for temporary file

2011-06-22 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 06/22/11 15:18, ThomasB wrote: My point is that a user of software, and this is not limited to Garmin map software, may not know what a software does in the background i.e. if it is creating a (temporary) Derivative Database, a Collective Database or whatever. Yes. The software might we

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] section 4.6 of ODbL was [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
You are certainly not required to make available a historic snapshot of OSM just because you have a historic tile on your server. See also the work-in-progress page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Trivial_Transformations_-_Guideline Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ra

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
contributes them to OSM under CC-By-SA and CT/ODbL. Duh. Does that mean I don't get to delete the Australian coastline in the end? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" __

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 06/17/11 16:06, John Smith wrote: So once again I'm met with silence and can only assume that produced works licensed under cc-by or cc-by-sa can be derived from, Ignore my words if you want but don't claim you are "met with silence". unless the ODBL prevents this in which case tile u

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 06/17/11 11:18, John Smith wrote: Only if the amount of data traced is not substantial. CC-by-SA makes no such distinction, it's either cc-by-sa or it's not cc-by-sa, so which license can tiles be put under? Sorry, I thought you had asked about tracing from tiles. Tiles can be put un

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 06/17/11 10:49, John Smith wrote: Data from an ODbL database may however be used to create a BY-SA Produced Work. So this means produced works can be traced into a cc-by-sa data set then? Only if the amount of data traced is not substantial. This echoes the "reverse engineering" disc

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] data derived from UK Ordnace Survey

2011-06-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 06/16/11 12:31, Dermot McNally wrote: Does that not effectively rule out any future relicensing because the burden of checking existing data is just too high? I mean, how would one even *begin* to perform such a check, given that nobody is actually obliged to tell us what license restrict

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] data derived from UK Ordnace Survey

2011-06-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 06/16/11 10:55, Richard Fairhurst wrote: In the event of a future relicensing, LWG and the community would need to check existing data and delete it if so. Does that not effectively rule out any future relicensing because the burden of checking existing data is just too high? I mean, h

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Private negotiations

2011-06-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
) At the same time, and even though this may sound conflicting, an effort should be made to involve TimSC in AoA discussions, or he should be encouraged to stand for election to the board, because paragraphs>. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remo

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs are not full copyright assignment

2011-06-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
t;real" share-alike license. Even CC-BY-SA does have exemptions (e.g. something that is covered by a patent may not fall under CC-BY-SA's share-alike). Who's to say what counts? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs are not full copyright assignment

2011-06-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
willing to submit to a 2/3 majority, but requested the option to veto any future license change for "his" data. If that is the case he's talking about then this is really far beyond what "the sysadmins" want or don't want... Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eM

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Remapping before license change (was Re: CTs are not full copyright assignment)

2011-06-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
were unnecessary, I'd certainly not waste my time on this list. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.op

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs are not full copyright assignment

2011-06-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 06/07/11 10:35, Ed Avis wrote: The process is pretty simple really: - decide what licence you want without bothering to hold a vote - get everyone to sign up to new contributor terms allowing that licence - block anyone who says no from contributing and presto! you have your 2/3 majority

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs are not full copyright assignment

2011-06-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 06/07/11 06:27, Mike Dupont wrote: The people are not being asked to agree to a license in general, but to give up an allow the board to tweak the license for them. No. There are three ways in which the license can be changed in the future. 1. Ask everyone to relicense to "X". This is

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Phase 4 and what it means

2011-06-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
other exception might be that OSMF can sue others for abuse on your behalf. But again - is that a problem? Would you rather have the sentence about suing for copyright violation removed from the CT, would that be better? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@re

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Phase 4 and what it means

2011-06-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
the remaining 1/3 after 2/3 have agreed, and thus a 2/3 majority would not be of any use currently. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Phase 4 and what it means

2011-06-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
onsidered for the main page. Having said that, OSM is much more than www.openstreetmap.org. With great sadness to I write these words And also with great confusion, it seems, since at least half of it was based on false assumptions. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@r

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Collective database

2011-06-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 06/06/11 12:56, Kirill Bestoujev wrote: The resulting map (a single file) contains data from both sources. Can this resulting map (which is a database by its inside structure) treated as a collective database? I believe so. In my opinion, a derived database would result if you were to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Phase 4 and what it means

2011-06-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
cially) loss-less transition to phase 5. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Phase 4 and what it means

2011-06-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
phase 5) should be used to pre-emptively remap everything that has not been relicensed, so that we have a smooth transition instead of having to endure empty spots on the map. Nobody gains if we do this in haste. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Phase 4 and what it means

2011-06-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
uld mean that we should continue to tell mappers not to start replacing non-relicensed data even after phase 4 comes into effect, right? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ le

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Phase 4 and what it means

2011-06-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
he CT, there's no reason to prefer the former. He made the same claim to talk-au without backing up his assertions when questions so his claims could be verified. Where the claim was made has no relevance for my assessment that it does not make a difference. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Phase 4 and what it means

2011-06-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
he CT, there's no reason to prefer the former. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Phase 4 and what it means

2011-06-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
rson's data and replace it with yours. The map will not be worse for it, and the other mapper can hardly complain. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ legal-talk mailin

[OSM-legal-talk] Phase 4 and what it means

2011-06-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
e page. Because currently people are not; some thing that they have until phase 5 to reconsider, and some already have twitchy fingers and will start purging non-relicensed data as soon as we say "phase 4". (Well some are already purging non-relicensed data now but everybody advise

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] license for "Wiki Loves Monuments"

2011-05-15 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Mike Dupont wrote: Funny, based on my last question, the OSM will not be able to use cc-by-sa data in the future. Some say that we aren't able to use CC-BY-SA data now because we cannot provide proper attribution. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ##

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Breaking up is hard to do (was New Logo in the Wiki)

2011-05-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
Russ, On 05/06/11 07:25, Russ Nelson wrote: > Would you really say that personally, as far as your contributions are > concerned, you consider your "I agree" click to be legally void because > it happened "under duress"? No, I'm saying that *everyone's* agreement is invalid because it

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Breaking up is hard to do (was New Logo in the Wiki)

2011-05-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Russ, (I'm trying to move this over to legal-talk because you are expressing an interesting legal viewpoint): On 05/05/11 06:27, Russ Nelson wrote: I'm wondering on what data you come to that conclusion? Because people have clicked "ok" on the license change and CTs? And yet there is no ag

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Mixing data under different licenses

2011-04-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
a? If OSM data is instrumental in the point being created then it is certainly a derived work. (It isn't a derived work until step 3.3 because OSM data only comes into play in 3.4.) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33&q

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Rights granted to OSMF (Section 2 of the CT)

2011-04-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 04/17/2011 10:51 AM, Florian Lohoff wrote: But has been a major point of problems in the past. Have a look at the GCC issues. Patches will not be submitted because a transfer of copyright is a no go for some. Firstly, in the CT case we're not talking "transfer of copyright". Secondly,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Rights granted to OSMF (Section 2 of the CT)

2011-04-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
Eugene, On 04/17/2011 06:39 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: Some people have problems with section 2 of the proposed CT because of granting of rights to OSMF. [...] Clearly this is not that big a problem for Apache contributors, why should it be a big problem for OSM contributors True. Also

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap License Change Phase 3 begins Sunday

2011-04-15 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 04/15/2011 09:16 PM, Francis Davey wrote: In addition, it is imho not clear that not some of the many imports listed as "Attribution" licensed wouldn't fall into this category, too (rather than in category 3 as CC-BY). I haven't seen this list so cannot comment. Sorry for that. I had

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap License Change Phase 3 begins Sunday

2011-04-15 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, (Thread moved over from talk) On 04/15/2011 05:55 PM, Kai Krueger wrote: In addition, it is imho not clear that not some of the many imports listed as "Attribution" licensed wouldn't fall into this category, too (rather than in category 3 as CC-BY). To be clear, my "category 3" was meant

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Questions about CTs 1.2.4

2011-04-14 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 04/14/2011 09:54 AM, Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote: If I'm reading what Francis has written correctly, this would seem to be a very real problem with CT 2.2.4, which would prevent us using almost any source which wasn't PD or for which the contributor didn't own the copyright. In particula

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Announcement: "Add-tags" a tool to connect OpenStreetMap & Wikipedia

2011-04-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
to ODbL. (Followup-to legal-talk.) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Compliance timeline

2011-04-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 04/08/2011 05:05 PM, Ed Avis wrote: I.e. even if we were planning to switch to CC-BY-SA 4, the Contributor Terms would still make a lot of sense. Well, in that particular case, the automatic forward compatibility of CC-BY-SA would take care of it. I was trying to say that even if we h

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Compliance timeline

2011-04-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 04/08/2011 10:21 AM, Rob Myers wrote: I think it would make more sense to work with the Creative Commons people on CC-BY-SA version 4, so we can upgrade licences without deleting any data or requiring every contributor to transfer rights to the OSMF. Then everyone could just keep on mapp

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Licensing Working Group

2011-03-24 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 03/24/11 09:23, Andrew Harvey wrote: ...and many prospective contributors are being shunned away because a new contributor doesn't have the same privileges as existing contributors. i.e. existing contributors can use non-CT compatible data, but new users cannot. That's a funny distincti

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Someone ought to do something ... dealing with violations of OSM's geodata license

2011-03-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
Effectively policing *any* license would very likely require a *multiple* of OSMF's whole current budget. Do you want to stand before mappers and tell them "for every pound we spend for servers to make mapping a nicer experience, we spend five pounds to seek out and punish license viol

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Someone ought to do something ... dealing with violations of OSM's geodata license

2011-03-20 Thread Frederik Ramm
embarassement to the project. Personally I think that "name and shame" should be the utmost we do with violators, and legal steps should neither be threatened nor initiated except in very grave circumstances. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm #

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OpenStreetMap copyright credits

2011-02-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 02/16/11 18:56, David Groom wrote: On the wiki under phase 4 of the licencing plan [1] it says "Final cut-off. Community Question: What do we do with the people who have declined or not responded?" Who is "the community" in the above context, Anyone who wants to say something. Note tha

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] question

2011-02-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Irakli wrote: Hi I’m new user and I have some questions Maybe http://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/2676/can-i-use-osm-in-software-that-is-password-protected answers some of them. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09"

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CC-BY-SA / Non-separatable combination of OSM+other

2011-02-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Peter, On 02/02/11 21:02, Peter Miller wrote: I don't believe that a court would see it that way and it is a very unhelpful view for the project to take. The whole attribution-and-share-alike thing is a very unhelpful situation for the project but it doesn't go away simply because it is iden

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CC-BY-SA / Non-separatable combination of OSM+other

2011-02-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 02/02/11 19:47, Jonathan Harley wrote: I think we may have differing interpretations of the intent of the license. Mine is that the license is supposed to allow people to use the map in a variety of ways, online and in print, so long as any new data is open and OSM is attributed; not that

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CC-BY-SA / Non-separatable combination of OSM+other

2011-02-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 02/02/11 19:39, Peter Miller wrote: So... you are suggesting that you believe that no one will ever be able to overlay an osm map, or indeed an ccbya image with any image that not available on an open license even if the context of the two images is completely different? Yes, I am not o

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CC-BY-SA / Non-separatable combination of OSM+other

2011-02-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 02/02/11 18:49, Jonathan Harley wrote: For print, yes, that's about the size of it. I don't see what print's got to do with it. Any rendering, whether to paper or to a screen, changes the bits used The difference is who makes the work. If you have an image comprising two separatable

[OSM-legal-talk] CC-BY-SA / Non-separatable combination of OSM+other

2011-02-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
inion is rather more on Peter's side I'd probably make some phone calls tomorrow and tell some people that contrary to what I said earlier, they can go ahead with their projects ;) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33

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

2011-01-22 Thread Frederik Ramm
x27;s best for a database of facts is best for OSM. I think that the misconception from which CC is now distancing themselves is that "data should be licensed CC0", not "OSM is a databae of facts". Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
play. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
is not as free as we'd like it to be, and if they possess enough raw material to replace the data with something fully CT compatible, they should do so. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] How to remove my data since 2006

2011-01-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 01/05/2011 02:14 PM, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen >> Nothing will be removed on 1st April. 1st April only means that you will not be allowed to edit *with your old account* if you haven't agreed to the CT. No edit with my account leads to that I demand my previous data

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 01/05/2011 01:17 PM, Ed Avis wrote: If the new path for licence changes is well-thought-out and well-defined, why are we not using it now? I would love to, however if today 2/3 agree to the license change, we still need to get an OK from the remaining 1/3 to continue using their data

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] How to remove my data since 2006

2011-01-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 01/05/11 09:01, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen wrote: Is there a tool available to remove all my contributed data from osm, safeguard it, and allows me to resubmit once I can agree with the CT and new license ? No. You would probably negatively affect a lot of other contri

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

2011-01-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 01/04/11 15:17, John Smith wrote: Or better yet, change "active contributor" to "active participant" and include things like genuine mailing list posts or wiki edits or ... rather than restricting "interested parties" to only those who can edit... I think that would be perfectly ok, alb

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