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

2011-01-04 Thread Stephan Knauss
On 04.01.2011 08:53, Steve Bennett wrote: The OSMF board mandates the LWG to enforce mandatory acceptance of the CT and ODBL in order to edit the database by March 31st. Have I misunderstood the situation, or is that pretty much the size of it: on April 1st, all Nearmap-derived data (and

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

2011-01-04 Thread John Smith
On 4 January 2011 18:40, Stephan Knauss o...@stephans-server.de wrote: you misunderstood. After 31st March you have to mandatory agree to CT in order to continue to EDIT. eg: After this date no NEW nearmap data could be inserted unless compatible with CT. Which brings up the other point of

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

2011-01-04 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:11 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 January 2011 01:02, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: But you are right in that there is a weakness because people are not guaranteed a right

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

2011-01-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 01/04/11 16:02, Anthony wrote: But what could we do? Let people remove their data if they don't agree to future licensing terms. No, that is not acceptable to me. Someone who participates in OSM must have the willingness to accept what the majority wants, or else they should not

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

2011-01-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Rob Myers wrote: On 04/01/11 15:05, Richard Fairhurst wrote: OS OpenData is AIUI compatible with ODbL and the latest Contributor Terms. [citation needed] (http://fandomania.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/xfiles1.jpg) :) I keep meaning to sit down and write a long blog post about this. ==

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

2011-01-04 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Such an opt-out clause would mean: We're not a community building something together, we're a pot where everyone can temporarily put their personal contribution but remove it at any time. On the rest, we're going to

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, albeit

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

2011-01-04 Thread John Smith
On 5 January 2011 01:49, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: As it happens OS is planning to move to the Open Government Licence, and this has an explicit compatibility clause with any ODC attribution licence. (It also has sane guidance on attribution, e.g. If it is not practical to

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

2011-01-04 Thread John Smith
On 5 January 2011 01:54, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: I think that would be perfectly ok, albeit perhaps hard to define. (For example the evil OSMF could change the license on the Wiki so that Joe the would-be contributor cannot, for his moral reasons, participate on the Wiki any

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

2011-01-04 Thread Tobias Knerr
Anthony wrote: Let people remove their data if they don't agree to future licensing terms. It's my impression that this statement reflects the fundamental philosophical reason why you seem to disagree with all versions of the Contributor Terms so far: You insist on the idea of individual data

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

2011-01-04 Thread John Smith
On 5 January 2011 02:16, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: I believe that this underlying spirit of the Contributor Terms fits the reality of OSM. Already today, there's hardly a way I've created or That's not the impression I get, take this comment for example:

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

2011-01-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: That might work for ODBL which has attribution requirements, although if produced works are exempt from attribution requirements They're not. ODbL 4.3 requires attribution on produced works. and the CT allows for license changes to non-attribution licenses It doesn't. CT 4

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

2011-01-04 Thread Peter Miller
On 4 January 2011 15:49, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Rob Myers wrote: On 04/01/11 15:05, Richard Fairhurst wrote: OS OpenData is AIUI compatible with ODbL and the latest Contributor Terms. [citation needed]

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

2011-01-04 Thread Anthony
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de wrote: Anthony wrote: Let people remove their data if they don't agree to future licensing terms. It's my impression that this statement reflects the fundamental philosophical reason why you seem to disagree with all versions

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

2011-01-04 Thread David Groom
- Original Message - From: Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net To: legal-talk@openstreetmap.org Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 4:48 PM Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline John Smith wrote: Thanks for the clarification. In your opinion, what would be

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

2011-01-04 Thread David Groom
- Original Message - From: Stephan Knauss o...@stephans-server.de To: Licensing and other legal discussions. legal-talk@openstreetmap.org Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 6:08 PM Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline Peter Miller writes: I will currently be

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

2011-01-04 Thread David Groom
- Original Message - From: John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com To: Licensing and other legal discussions. legal-talk@openstreetmap.org Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 6:18 PM Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline On 5 January 2011 04:08, Stephan Knauss

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

2011-01-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote: ODbL 4.3 requires that the source database be attributed, not any data sources that went into making that database. As I said, to understand the attribution chain in ODbL, I find it helpful to consider OSM as a Derivative Database of OS OpenData (i.e. Extracting

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

2011-01-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
I wrote: As I said, to understand the attribution chain in ODbL, I find it helpful to consider OSM as a Derivative Database of OS OpenData (i.e. Extracting or Re-utilising the whole or a Substantial part of the Contents in a new Database). To take the example given in ODbL 4.3a,

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

2011-01-04 Thread James Livingston
On 4 January 2011 17:53, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: My first question is: which version of the CT is referred to there? Does this mean the totally broken v1.0, the partially broken proposed v1.2.2, or some hopefully non-broken v1.3? I haven't been keeping track of this

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] legal-talk Digest, Vol 53, Issue 5

2011-01-04 Thread David Mirchin
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