Re: [OSM-legal-talk] new use case

2015-03-02 Thread Richard Weait
I'm pretty sure that Martijn means does NOT allow, rather than now. :-) So, whatever you are planning, Jennifer, hitting the editing API is probably going to get you some unwanted attention. There are other ways to access the OpenStreetMap data, and you'll want to make sure that you are using

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Updated geocoding community guideline proposal

2014-11-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: Updated: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Open_Data_License%2FGeocoding_-_Guidelinediff=1102233oldid=1076215 Hey Martin -

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Google awarded patent on automatic correction of road geometry from imagery

2014-06-05 Thread Richard Weait
Didn't Steve C publish an automated tool to create road geometry from aerial imagery when he was at Microsoft? ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Community Guidelines - Horizontal Cuts better text

2014-05-19 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: Thanks to all have responded specifically or generally on our community guidelines draft. I have been able to make a number of small changes which tighten and clarify without changing intent. I have made one large edit

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Creative Commons license question

2014-05-04 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 2:44 AM, Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: [ ... ] [And if anyone in the UK wants to help them by creating tiles from scratch under a CC-BY license, let me know and I'll pass on. It does seem to be in a good cause. But the core question is still a good one to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] The edges of share-alike on data Re: Attribution

2014-05-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: Open data is a different animal to software source code and highly-creative works and I suspect it will [be] a few more years yet until we understand it all fully. Sure. Of course, we are part of why it is a big deal

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Attributing OpenStreetMap at Mapbox

2014-04-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: I just posted a writeup on my diary on how we're attributing OpenStreetMap at Mapbox. [ ... ] [ and from the blog ] (c) Mapbox (c) OpenStreetMap links to https://www.mapbox.com/about/maps with a full listing of all sources. [

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Attribution

2014-04-29 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Luis Villa lvi...@wikimedia.org wrote: [ ... ] But it is a reality that [ fear of a Share Alike obligation(?)]* slows, or in some cases stops, adoption of/contribution to OSM. Slows contribution to OpenStreetMap? That sounds incorrect to me. ODbL and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Review of IndianaMap as potential datasource

2014-04-18 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: the wikipedia has a nice otrs system, I supposed you could use it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:OTRS so let them sign something that allows the data to be used by wikipedia and that should cover osm

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Upload of copyrighted map images from OSM to Facebook

2014-04-15 Thread Richard Weait
What do you suggest, Martin? ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [Talk-ca] Nouvelle licence de données ouvertes au Québec

2014-02-21 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Pierre Béland pierz...@yahoo.fr wrote: Eh good news for OSM-Quebec community then. Let's wait for the official confirmation of the exact license adopted. I disagree. Any license drafted or adopted by a Canadian government, other than a no-restrictions,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [Talk-ca] Nouvelle licence de données ouvertes au Québec

2014-02-21 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Mike Linksvayer m...@gondwanaland.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: [ ... ] Again, any government open data publication in Canada must be licensed ODC-PDDL, or else it is a not-open-enough-closed-data-failure

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [HOT] Imagery license clarification needed

2013-08-28 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote: Hi All, This has come up before. HOT is part of a pilot for the initiative Imagery to the Crowd (1). Representatives of HOT and the US Government met multiple times in all day meetings to discuss what the NextView license

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Regarding The New OSM License

2013-01-16 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Rob smartt...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. Would like to ask / discuss with you the new license for OSM if you do not mind. I have a website that I would like to integrate/include OSM map tiles into. What I would like to clarify is if I would be required to

[OSM-legal-talk] OpenStreetMap attribution in iPhoto

2012-05-03 Thread Richard Weait
Looks like Apple is now crediting OpenStreetMap in version 1.0.1 of iPhoto, as reported by OSMer Beelsebob, on #osm IRC :-) http://cl.ly/421B0u2r0u0J3o0I3e3s ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [Talk-cz] czech republic: data wrongly marked as ODbL compatible was Re: Hromadné importy změna licence

2012-04-02 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Pavel Machek pa...@ucw.cz wrote: Hi! So lets start by saying that I don't like ODbL and I hate CT. There are three classes of data I uploaded to osm: a) Hand created data, most important paths in the woods. CT+ODbL, is okay for those. b) ODbL compatible -

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [Talk-cz] czech republic: data wrongly marked as ODbL compatible was Re: Hromadné importy změna licence

2012-04-02 Thread Richard Weait
2012/4/2 Petr Morávek [Xificurk] xific...@gmail.com: Hi, I admit that I'm pretty confused right now... Are you saying that you've changed your mind and are willing to agree to ODbL+CT, except for the changesets containing imports of incompatible data? That would be really great! If this is

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Infringements - examples, analysis and request for removal

2012-03-31 Thread Richard Weait
2012/3/31 Darko Sokolić darko.soko...@xnet.hr: Dear colleagues, I contributed to OpenStreetMap under CC-BY-SA 2.0 license. It was great pleasure, and I enjoyed it very much. I did not accept new Contributor Terms and new license. Also, I did not authorise anyone, in any way, to relicense

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Contact And Remap Campaign

2012-02-13 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: Well essentially CC-by only imposes attribution so it is doable. But in any case: is the import listed in the import catalogue? If not, I would respectfully ask the DWG to summarily delete the data (the enforce bit of my

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Ulf Möller remembered

2012-01-18 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 5:40 AM, Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: I am deeply shocked this morning to learn of the murder of [our] friend Ulf. The OSMF site has a page where we can add our memories of Ulf. http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/01/18/ulf-m%C3%B6ller-1973-2012/

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] feedback requested

2011-12-27 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Yes. I have no strong feelings either way; your argument is correct. However the question must be asked in how far you can claim copyright for facts that others have to extract from your prose. In my personal opinion, if

[OSM-legal-talk] feedback requested

2011-12-20 Thread Richard Weait
compliance of any object. The LWG would like to adopt this as policy and would be grateful for community feedback. We look forward to your thoughtful, insightful feedback. Best regards and Happy Mapping, Richard Weait on behalf of LWG ___ legal-talk mailing

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] feedback requested

2011-12-20 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Jean-Marc Liotier j...@liotier.org wrote: On 12/20/2011 10:11 PM, Apollinaris Schoell wrote: Of particular interest are: - can node positions be cleaned by moving to a new position? While you are at it, I would love to hear about a specific subset of the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] simpler reconciliation of data

2011-11-23 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Jo winfi...@gmail.com wrote: [ ... ] I do have a suggestion to help identify which tags/properties are the ones contributed by somebody who declined or who can't be reached. Now I have to go an dig in the history to check who added names and other properties,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] How to modify data provider license (WMATA)

2011-09-13 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Josh Doe j...@joshdoe.com wrote: As I've had no response from this list, Hi Josh, I believe that standardized licenses for Open Data are a Very Good Thing. Perhaps, you can show them the benefit of selecting a license from Open Data Commons? Best regards,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Irony, was [talk-au]

2011-07-13 Thread Richard Weait
[Redirected from talk-au to legal-talk due to topic of discussion] Andrew Laughton wrote: Irony is when you buy a shiny new GPS loaded with OSM data, only to find out that you need to pay a license fee to be able to update the map. Gotta love that new license. [Response from Richard

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Question regarding compatibility of CC BY SA license versions

2011-07-11 Thread Richard Weait
2011/7/11 Holger Schöner nume...@ancalime.de: Hello, [I am sorry if this is a FAQ, but this matter is urgent, and a cursory web search has not provided sufficient information for me to answer these questions] I am in negotiation with a provider of aerial images (for Austria), who wants to

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

2011-06-18 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 5:39 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 June 2011 19:22, Francis Davey fjm...@gmail.com wrote: Tiles are clearly *maps* and so protected as artistic works under article 2(1) of the Berne Convention and therefore (one hopes) in every country which is a

[OSM-legal-talk] active contributor

2011-06-17 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Robert Kaiser ka...@kairo.at wrote: Olaf Schmidt-Wischhöfer schrieb: The first problem is that the right to vote depends upon being allowed to contribute. It it defined anywhere what contribute means? From the contributor terms v1.2.4 An active

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] application of ODBL to an extarct of OSM obtained via jxapi

2011-06-17 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:09 PM, David Groom revi...@pacific-rim.net wrote: Word in quotes below relate to the meanings given them by ODbL Assume I use jxapi to download an extract of the main OSM database .  Is the downloaded extract a Derivative Database, or since the download was provided

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Announce: Beginning of Phase 4 of license change process

2011-06-14 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: As per the implementation plan [1], we intend to move to phase 4 this Sunday 19th June or as soon after as is technically practical. This will mean that anyone who has explictly declined the new contributor terms will no

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Announce: Beginning of Phase 4 of license change process

2011-06-14 Thread Richard Weait
Also the current acceptance numbers are ~166,000 accepting, vs. 406 declined. ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

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

2011-06-14 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote: Hi all As promised, with apologies for the delay, here is the statement from NearMap regarding submission of derived works of our PhotoMaps to OSM. Dear Ben, Thank you for providing this clear statement, for NearMap's

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Import from Ushahidi Libya Instance

2011-06-13 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com wrote: Legal-talk, any opinions or insights on this question? == Mikel Maron == +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron From: Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com To: legal-talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Possible OSM copyright violations

2011-06-10 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Ciprian Talaba cipriantal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I would be interested to know if this is the place where we can discuss possible OSM copyright violations or should I direct my concerns directly to the Data Working Group? The problems I noticed are related to

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

2011-06-07 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:59 PM, john wilbanks wilba...@creativecommons.org wrote: Yup, I said this: I'm going to be a little provocative here and say that your data is already unprotected [under CC-BY-SA], and you cannot slap a license on it and protect it. ... That means I'm free to ignore

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

2011-06-06 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote: Why is that 2/3 majority not sought for the current license move? Current respondents are far above 2/3 accepting the new license and contributor terms. ___ legal-talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] PGS coastline

2011-06-05 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 8:56 AM, OJ W ojwli...@googlemail.com wrote: My account used for importing PGS coastlines just got an email asking that it agree to new contributor terms - has anyone already declared this is OK during the import-checking phase of license change? Asking on mailing list,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CT, time period for reply to a new license change (active contributor)

2011-04-08 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: Michael Collinson mike@... writes: - In the case of a major license change, there would be a run up of at least several months of publicity and discussion before the final formal vote announcement. At the moment there is

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] RAND Corporation license violation

2011-03-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Julio Costa Zambelli julio.co...@openstreetmap.cl wrote: I was checking some papers at work today and accidentally found this license violation (both Attribution and Share-Alike) by the RAND Corporation:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CT, time period for reply to a new license change (active contributor)

2011-03-27 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 6:52 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry that I come quite late with this, it might be too late, and it was bothering me occasionally already for some months: if we really decided in the future to change the license, isn't 3 weeks a little short

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL / CT and CC-BY-SA Pictures / Texts / Video

2011-03-11 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 6:45 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: Excuse me if this question has already been raised. I am currently involved in a project that has chosen OSM as cartographic base for a portal for tourists. There will be an ontology to allow for semantic

[OSM-legal-talk] per changeset relicensing

2011-02-01 Thread Richard Weait
There have been previous discussions regarding per changeset relicensing. I'd like to know if developing the tools to allow per changeset relicensing is worthwhile. There will be some effort involved in the coding, so it would be good to know in advance if this option will be used by many or few

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] US Rails to Trails database

2011-01-06 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Richard Masoner rmaso...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm a rank newbie at OSM, but getting into it because of my interest in mapping bike facilities. The US Rails to Trails Conservancy has an outstanding database of bicycling trails. This Traillink database is the

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

2010-11-24 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:22 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: How charming that you use selective quoting to fabricate a lie of omission. Viewing the original shows no lie. And that your fabrication failed to gain traction the first time you trotted it out.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Fwd: [okfn-discuss] Law and the GeoWeb

2010-11-21 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: I recognise some of the names on that list. ;-) - Rob. Sure. And the typo as well. Everybody and their dog get the name wrong. Right - OpenStreetMap Wrong - Open Street Maps Sigh.

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

2010-11-17 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 6:19 AM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: As a side note, if using ODbL, why not make the tiles public domain? Indeed. But I think that you are right that this is a side note. Why not start that discussion on the wiki, or in a separate thread here? I've changed the

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

2010-11-16 Thread Richard Weait
There have been several revisions to a new draft of the Contributor Terms from the LWG over the last few meetings. https://docs.google.com/View?id=dd9g3qjp_933xs7nvfb Various draft versions have been around for a while. I think we've improved the CT with each revision. LWG have had some

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] auckland city council copyright notice

2010-10-31 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.com wrote: the auckland city council has this as its copyright notice. how compatible would this be with cc-by-sa, or odbl? http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/en/pages/Copyrightstatement.aspx if it isn't, which items are

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] We Are Changing The License missing relevant information

2010-10-25 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: I just answered a user's question on how to accept the new contributor terms. I'll quote his statement here: ''How do we accept the new licence??'' JOSM sent me here but I cannot find a way to accept the licence.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] legal FAQ license

2010-10-13 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:05 PM, David Groom revi...@pacific-rim.net wrote: - Original Message - From: M?rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com To: Licensing and other legal discussions. legal-talk@openstreetmap.org Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 3:44 PM Subject:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata the new license

2010-09-28 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: We must really endeavour to better enable people to draw in non-OSM data at the rendering stage so that they don't feel tempted to drop their rubbish into OSM just so that they get a nice map rendered. Bravo.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Manitoba Lands Initiative data

2010-09-13 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Tyler Gunn ty...@egunn.com wrote: Hello, The Manitoba Lands Initiative has a wealth of data available on their website, and I wanted to pass the license by everyone here.  From what I understand of it, using their data in OSM is perfectly fine. Wow. Compared

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Google MapMaker and OSM data...

2010-09-07 Thread Richard Weait
Dear Eric, Your replies from Grant (on the server team) and Emilie (OSMF Board member) are from people who would normally deal with these issues. ;-) As far as I know Map Maker does not use OSM data, but no consumer of OSM data is obliged to tell OSM that they are using OSM data. They are only

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Google MapMaker and OSM data...

2010-09-07 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Eric Jarvies e...@csl.com.mx wrote: On Sep 7, 2010, at 10:02 AM, Richard Weait wrote: Also, as more data sets are opening up it is possible that Map Maker and OSM editors are using similar sources. Yes, I understand this and the context you are explaining

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-09-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 3:35 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 September 2010 17:30, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: only the most presumptuous person would believe that a license they choose today will automatically be the best license for the project for all time.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-09-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:01 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 September 2010 17:58, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: That you claim that Frederik, or LWG, or OSMF Board are are trying to speak for both people now and people in the future in the very same breath is bold

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-09-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:15 AM, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: Frederik's argument that we cannot predict what future generations will want is quite fallacious. Really? What will future generations want, 80n? I predict that future generations will want Flying cars sure, but we were promised

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-09-01 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:37 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, we contributors are being treated with contempt alright, besides not being asked what we contributors want, since this whole thing started it's been nothing but dirty tricks to try and get the license changed.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Noise vs unanswered questions

2010-09-01 Thread Richard Weait
Well we try to answer questions as quickly as possible. Some answers depend on further meetings, others depend on replies from busy professionals. Some answers get lost in the mundane reality of day to day life. Here are a couple of answers for questions that were asked a few weeks back. Not

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licence Implementation plan - declines or non-responses

2010-08-29 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 8:59 AM, David Groom revi...@pacific-rim.net wrote: In the implementation plan under phase 4 it asks Final cut-off. Community Question... What do we do with the people who have Declined or not responded? [1] In order to speed up the final phases of the implementation

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licence Implementation plan - declines ornon-responses

2010-08-29 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 12:14 PM, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 3:44 PM, David Groom revi...@pacific-rim.net wrote: 1) Those who do not want to, or can not. agree to the CT's and make an decision not to accept the CT's. 2) Those previous mappers who are no longer active

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Is this clickthrough agreement compatible with OSM?

2010-08-25 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 7:02 AM, Gregory Arenius greg...@arenius.com wrote: I've been considering bringing in some of the data available at http://www.datasf.org .  Most of it is behind this clickthrough agreement: http://gispub02.sfgov.org/website/sfshare/index2.asp . I think it would be okay

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Contributor Terms - The Early Years

2010-08-22 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 7:58 PM, SomeoneElse li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk wrote:  On 22/08/2010 15:27, Mike Collinson wrote: http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Working_Group_Minutes or directly https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1lVQlsnuEKPY2gjspScwHqgmo8RyoqmuaWWmWh58T4TY 0.1

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Change - moving forward

2010-08-10 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Brian Quinion openstreet...@brian.quinion.co.uk wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: If you support the share-alike concept, I urge you to accept the new Contributor Terms which provides for a coherent Attribution,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-04 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, John Smith wrote: Any such mechanism, in my eyes, need not be 100% perfect; it is sufficient to make a honest attempt at doing the right thing, and if a few things slip through, then fix them in case of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-04 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 9:00 AM, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: If there is anything under development it would be good if we could see it. It is unlikely to be a trivial piece of code and I'd be very surprised if it can be developed by September 1st if it hasn't already been started. You've

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-04 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:32 PM, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: [ ... ] September 1st represents a reasonable timeframe, based on the currently published implementation plan Dear 80n, Absolutely not. From the implementation plan. Phase 2 scheduled as 5 or 10 weeks. Phase 3 as 8 weeks. Plus

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Heiko Jacobs heiko.jac...@gmx.de wrote: Hello I searched without success in the Wiki who official decided, when and *WHY* they decided, that data of contributors, who not (can) accept the ODbl, has to be removed. In

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] PD declaration non binding?

2010-07-24 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Matija Nalis mnalis-gm...@voyager.hr wrote: On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:05:02 -0700 (PDT), Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: TimSC wrote: In that case, is it legally sound if I download my own contribution due, to database rights? Difficult to say -

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-23 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Sun, 11 Jul 2010, Kai Krueger wrote: So far the the impressions I got from the members of the licensing group vary from anywhere between e.g. 10% data loss is acceptable to as high as 90% data loss is acceptable (as long as a

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Mixing ODbL and CC-BY-SA databases

2010-07-17 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi,   here's an interesting one. Suppose OSM has just changed its license to ODbL. A final CC-BY-SA planet has been released, non-relicensed data has been removed from the servers, and the project is again humming

[OSM-legal-talk] Compatible licenses

2010-07-16 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 8:01 AM, James Livingston li...@sunsetutopia.com wrote: * Currently you can import any data with a compatible licence (e.g. CC-BY-SA, CC-BY), you can't if we change without the copyright holder's permission This is a tremendous improvement in my opinion. I'd like to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

2010-07-13 Thread Richard Weait
, because the number of people is of little interest, it is the amount of their contributions that matters. I feel that the number of contributors is very important. Secondly, I think Richard Weait found good words for this at SOTM: Nobody in OSMF or the license working group wants to hurt OSM

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] using OSM on TV

2010-07-11 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 5:36 AM, visio...@petml.com wrote: I'm trying to determine what is required of my company with regard to the on-air broadcast of OSM data. I sell a product used in TV news. Part of my product consists of maps. Sometimes my maps use OSM data. Not always, in fact most

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New OSM contributor licensing under ODbL and CC-BY-SA started today

2010-05-21 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: Mike Collinson m...@... writes: - When enough contributors have agreed, we cut over to licensing the current database under ODbL, (And a static snapshot of the database is also made forever under CC-BY-SA).  If for some reason

[OSM-legal-talk] ccbysa Prominence clause

2010-04-06 Thread Richard Weait
Recent OSM-derived sites have included beautiful vanity logos on the map. As an example, the recent isochronous map of Paris: http://www.isokron.com/default/ Has a beautiful, bright isokron logo and link to their site. But I wonder if this meets with the Prominence clause of our ccbysa license?

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

2010-04-05 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi,    a recent discussion on talk-de has unearthed an interesting question with regards to iPhone/Appstore and other locked platforms. [... ] Now, CC-BY-SA requires that whoever buys this application should have the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OSM license change - ODbL - questions

2010-03-30 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:34 PM, F. Heinen f.heinen...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Richard, Thanks a lot for the response. I read (quickly) most of the documentation already. Seems quite a lot of work and study has been put into this. Good work OSMF! But even when it seems this is all needed and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OSM license change - ODbL - questions

2010-03-29 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:09 PM, F. Heinen f.heinen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Let me first introduce myself, I am Frank aka Frenzel. I am a community member of OSM.nl since Aug. 2009, so relatively new but also quite active. I hope I mail this to the right mailing list. Hi Frank, I'm

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] TeleAtlas data in OSM

2010-02-04 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Stefano Salvador stefano.salva...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I tried to send this to the foundation but I got no response, so I'm trying here. During an edit session I noticed a number of errors near my living area [1]. Comparing the area with GMaps [2] reveals too

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OBbL and forks

2009-12-08 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:40 AM, mapp...@sheerman-chase.org.uk wrote: Hi, A quick question for the legal people: does ODbL allow the project to be forked? Why not? The code is in svn and has been for ages, ready for forking. Of course, you can't change the license on the GPL code that you

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Toronto data license: Incompatible with OSM

2009-11-14 Thread Richard Weait
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Andy Robinson ajrli...@googlemail.com wrote: But maybe if you chat to them they might consider releasing to OSM under a modified license to get around this? Of course. In progress. ;-) ___ legal-talk mailing list

[OSM-legal-talk] reciprocal data agreements

2009-10-06 Thread Richard Weait
Dear legal-talk, I wonder if either cc-by-sa, or ODbL anticipate a reciprocal data agreement between OSM and another project with a different license? Imagine a data provider using perhaps cc-by, or a BSD style permissive license contributes their data to OSM. Imagine then that they would like

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Legal aid - tentative data source from an Australian regional council

2009-09-07 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Jeff Pricejeff.pr...@rocketmail.com wrote: Hello, I approached my local council some months ago enquiring about access to their road data and recently gained a in principle agreement for shapefile content via cdrom.  While I explained the creative commons

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OSM usage in commercial apps.

2009-09-07 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Algirdas Mockusalgirdas.moc...@gmail.com wrote: Hy everybody, Our company is planning to use Marble widget in commercial product. As you know Marble is licensed under LGPL v2 license, that permits its usage in commercial closed source apps. I have a question

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Reverse-Engineering Maps and Share-Alike Licences

2009-03-08 Thread Richard Weait
On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 13:00 +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote: If someone really wants to jump through these hoops to get it done, let him do it. I think this will be a niche application and, if at all, only used very seldom. And if we later find that someone is really being a thorn in our side