Re: [OSM-legal-talk] having anonymous internet users editing the map

2010-06-27 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Frederik Ramm wrote: lulu-...@gmx.de wrote: As the topic of the map is discussed controversely, vandalism is likely to happen, I am afraid. If the user attempts to use OSM as a vehicle to further his own side in whatever "controversy" you are alluding to, risking to bri

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Open Data Definition at OSCON

2010-06-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
Open Source. I think we can and should do the same thing for Open Data. What's wrong with the Open Knowledge Definition from our friends at OKFN? http://www.opendefinition.org/okd/ Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] public transport routing and OSM-ODbL

2010-07-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
ender 4.4c completely useless. 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] public transport routing and OSM-ODbL

2010-07-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Oliver (skobbler) wrote: Sure, any Derivative Database that is made available to a 3rd party falls under the share-alike. No doubt about that. This handled in section 4.4. The exceptions are handled in the following section 4.5. In case of "your" Produced Work, you make the Produced Work av

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] public transport routing and OSM-ODbL

2010-07-10 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 07/09/2010 02:22 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: So let's say Australia wants to stick with CC licences because most of your data is imported and you reckon it's not relicensable under ODbL.[1] And let's say Europe wants to move to ODbL because CC isn't valid for data in most of Europe and

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

2010-07-13 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Liz wrote: And the arrangement was that whether the licence change went ahead or not depended on how many people agreed to relicense their data Firstly, if anyone ever said "how many people" then that was a mistake, because the number of people is of little interest, it is the amount of

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

2010-07-13 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Richard Fairhurst wrote: If OSMF makes a stupid decision then you can set up freestreetmap.org with the same tools, all the existing data, and the existing licence. If someone wants to have freeworldmap.org, I registered that a while ago in case I had to fork OSM but I'm willing to give i

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

2010-07-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
John, John Smith wrote: You are correct, it's obvious that there is some people unhappy with the status quo. I wouldn't exactly say I am unhappy with the status quo. It's like living in a house where experts say it is going to fall apart any minute - you might like to be able to retain the s

[OSM-legal-talk] Upgrading to future ODbL version

2010-07-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
ns that if ODbL 1.1 comes out, it will not be usable out of the box, but we would have to go through the whole "2/3 of active members have to accept" poll to upgrade. Is that a desired safeguard against OKFN releasing "bad" new license versions, or is it an oversight?

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

2010-07-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
annot publish the tiles. Right? 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] Relicensing, PD, leverage and petitions

2010-07-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
nfluence what happens in the future. I wouldn't ask for more at this time. 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] Relicensing, PD, leverage and petitions

2010-07-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
legal - not "legal specifically for OSM and only if the license is X". Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org

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

2010-07-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
Tim, TimSC wrote: I don't get that impression when I read the wiki. It says it is only a "statement" and making this statement does not change "what people can do with your data". Looking at the wiki, those lines were written by Frederik Ramm. I guess I'll ask h

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

2010-07-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Andy Allan wrote: 3) I can "consider" my edits public domain to my heart's content, but if they are based on other people's non-PD edits, then they aren't going to be fully PD. I think in the wake of the license change we will have to develop a number of very interesting metrics telling u

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

2010-07-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, TimSC wrote: You talk as if ODbL was a reality. I suspect it might be soon, but currently it is not in effect. How does the current license situation block PD? I am assuming each PD declaration is in effect immediately, while ODbL has yet to be adopted. The page you quoted, http://wiki.

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

2010-07-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, TimSC wrote: Yes, a database right exists. The "author" of the database is probably the person/organisation who created the schema, wrote and enforced the criteria for acceptance into the database. (You see my point that "the community" may have a stake in this.) I have heard more than o

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

2010-07-24 Thread Frederik Ramm
says you can now use the software under another license. Often there won't even be a separate download link. It is perfectly sufficient if someone agrees to ODbL, we can then take his data from our existing database. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.

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

2010-07-25 Thread Frederik Ramm
ould be great. I am not sure if it is possible legally though, because the very nature of database right is to protect the whole database - once you deal with database right you don't deal with individual contributions or data items any more. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede.

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

2010-07-26 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Heiko Jacobs wrote: Rob Myers schrieb: Creative Commons did put a mechanism in place with BY-SA 3.0 to declare other licences "compatible" with BY-SA and allow derivatives to be relicenced under them. But they haven't declared any compatible yet. So updating our 2.0 to 3.0 and then find

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

2010-08-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Tom Hughes wrote: On 04/08/10 12:06, Frederik Ramm wrote: I also still searching archived versions of old (pre double licensing) versions of contribution terms. You answered it in talk-de citing a small sentence but with a preceding "I guess" ... An archive without guess wou

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

2010-08-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, 80n wrote: Does anyone know whether the code exists to do this yet? I doubt it. How are way splits handled (only one half of the way will have a full history)? I think they can be auto-detected (i.e. where in one changeset, one way suddenly loses some nodes and another springs up that

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

2010-08-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
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 complaints. Which goes against the usual OSM policy of rejecting it if unsure, rather t

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

2010-08-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, 80n wrote: This quickly gets quite complex when factored across multiple generations of way splits. You're right, let's just ignore way splits altogether then ;) Changesets are a relatively recent invention. Edits prior to the introduction of changesets don't have any formal grouping so

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

2010-08-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
want. Just a thought. Not necessarily bright. Might have its problems, might also work. 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] decision removing data

2010-08-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
atabase and have to stop handing out non-relicensed data. We can, and will, use that time to make sure the process is as painless as possible - all of us. Setting deadlines, in my eyes, doesn't really help. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'

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

2010-08-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
lding back on edits which are based on sources that might not be ODbL compatible - because they fear it would all be for nothing. If they'd be given the chance to contribute their stuff to a purely CC-BY-SA fork then perhaps they would. Bye Frederik -- F

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

2010-08-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
le's copyright". That's absurd, and you're making a clown of yourself by repeating your question every two days. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33"

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

2010-08-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
is documented in the implementation plan on the wiki) that immediately before changeover, a last "cc-by-sa planet" including full history will be made available. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Open Data Definition at OSCON

2010-08-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
Russ, On 08/08/2010 06:34 AM, Russ Nelson wrote: Here are the questions we arrived at (thanks to Skud aka Kirrily Robert for taking notes): Good observations. Might be worth to discuss with folks at odc-disc...@lists.okfn.org as well. I'll forward your post there for people to be aware of yo

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

2010-08-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 08/08/2010 09:25 AM, John Smith wrote: On 8 August 2010 17:03, Russ Nelson wrote: copyright on it and claim it as their own. Because the ODbL and CC-By-SA impose a cost on the community. I mean, if we're going to get rid of contributors on purpose, then at least let's get rid of the p

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

2010-08-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
Liz, On 08/08/2010 10:21 AM, Liz wrote: You are welcome to join a 48,000 km kayak trip to survey the Australian coastline. I'll completely replace it with the PD PGS shoreline if anyone ever again says "we cannot do X because of the imported Australian shoreline". Honestly, I will. Bye Fre

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

2010-08-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
Anthony, Anthony wrote: I don't trust the OSMF to properly remove all of my work and derivatives of my work if/when they stop releasing those derivatives under CC-BY-SA. In December last year we had a guy also called Anthony on legal-talk who said: I live in the United States, where fact

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

2010-08-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
ng a copy of their data. If it later turns out they lied, or were certifiably insane at the time they made the statement, I can always remove it again. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33"

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Simple question about CT

2010-08-15 Thread Frederik Ramm
ot;the same email" but is completely separate. Any license decision you make on one account will not influence the other. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" __

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Simple question about CT

2010-08-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, David Groom wrote: However from a legal point of view the CT terms say is is an agreement between "you" and OSMF. Interesting, and probably true. But since making the second account forces you to use a different email address, how will we ever know with certainty that "you" and "you" are

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Is tracing from Yahoo allowed under the CT's

2010-08-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
David, David Groom wrote: Secondly from the second line of http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Yahoo#Legalities you will see the phrase "Yahoo! have agreed to let OSM use their aerial imagery" [ under the old licence terms], and large parts of the remainder of that page go on to mention the a

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and duration of IP protection

2010-08-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
tever that is). - A clause in the ODbL that lifts protection after a period which is shorter than the CC-BY under which the source came would make the source inadmissible. I like your idea but I don't think now is the right time for it. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] I don't want companies stealing OSM data that I contribute!

2010-08-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Emilie Laffray wrote: While I am not a legal expert, I will try to answer that one. Companies can already make money from OpenStreetMap: there are plenty of examples around (Skobbler, Cloudmade, Geofabrik, etc). There is nothing preventing a company from using the data. However, they a

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] I don't want companies stealing OSM data that I contribute!

2010-08-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
(moving this thread to legal-talk) Valent: AFAIK with new Contributor Terms [1] all data entered into OSM can be taken by some company, closed and they could create a product made profit on it. Grant: No, they have to make the data available. The data is share-alike. http://www.opendatacommo

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New contributors and some data sources are not allowed under the CTs but too easy to access.

2010-08-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
No, I don't think 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] New contributors and some data sources are not allowed under the CTs but too easy to access.

2010-08-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
erly, thus bringing them "into" the system. 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] Size of NearMap Contribution

2010-08-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
s. I'm posting this to legal-talk because even though this posting does not deal with anything legal, I have a hunch that follow-ups will. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Size of NearMap Contribution

2010-08-20 Thread Frederik Ramm
Anthony, Anthony wrote: I think that the people count more than the data they contribute. That's a good statement. I'm happy that you have finally come to understand what this project is about! I was beginning to think you might just be here for the fun of the argument, whatever argument it

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Size of NearMap Contribution

2010-08-20 Thread Frederik Ramm
Andrzej, andrzej zaborowski wrote: So 300 mappers' work is not something we should make a fuss about? Let's put it this way: If 300 mappers are enough to put in a veto against the CT or the license change then we can stop right now, because I am pretty sure that *whatever* you do (even if y

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Size of NearMap Contribution

2010-08-20 Thread Frederik Ramm
John, John Smith wrote: But in the grand scheme of things, not changing the license (I *knew* this would become a license discussion ;) is, in my opinion, likely to alienate Because you keep making it a license issue, but of course it's not and you know it. In my eyes the ODbL and CT are par

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Size of NearMap Contribution

2010-08-20 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, John Smith wrote: In my eyes the ODbL and CT are part and parcel and I refer to both as "the license change". I don't think that you can separate them. Is that because you don't think people will swallow the CTs unless they are a package deal? No, my statement above is not politically or

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Size of NearMap Contribution

2010-08-20 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Francis Davey wrote: Has anyone given much thought to how this works for the sui generis database right of the European Union? Certainly the EU hasn't, the whole database right is written for a world where company X pays employees to gather data. I am wondering (as others have wondered

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Size of NearMap Contribution

2010-08-20 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, John Smith wrote: (Not, of course, this particular version of the CT, if that's what you're Exactly... you are trying to sell us a particular happy meal that isn't making us happy... "us" being...? And I'm not trying to sell anything. If you agree that some for of CT is required, and y

[OSM-legal-talk] New license for business: meh

2010-08-22 Thread Frederik Ramm
the data working group. I am not essential to anything OSM does, don't hold an OSMF post (nor have I ever sought one)... 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] Future relicensing in the contributor terms and data imports

2010-08-22 Thread Frederik Ramm
sidered for some exceptional cases where imports under, say, CC-BY-SA have already been done but as you correctly say, these can become a liability later. It will almost certainly (IANABM, IANALWGM) not be considered for future imports. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm #

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] To calm some waters - about Section 3

2010-08-25 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Simon Biber wrote: I and many others need a firm commitment to ensure contributions continue to be protected by attribution and share-alike in the future. -1 (I mean, you may "need" that but you shouldn't get it. As an aside I also want to point out that the use of "continue to be protec

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] To calm some waters - about Section 3

2010-08-25 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Simon Ward wrote: OSMF have chosen DbCL for individual database contents. That leaves quite some flexibility in how individual contents may be used and distributed without taking into account the extraction from the database that is covered by the ODbL. I would be interested to discussing

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] To calm some waters - about Section 3

2010-08-26 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Kevin Peat wrote: Well I think someone wanting a PD project would need to start from scratch anyway as it would be hard for them to demonstrate that any existing data wasn't encumbered with other licenses given the wide use of imports and tracing in lots of countries. I think so too, but

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] ODbL vs CC-by-SA pros and cons

2010-08-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
ta OSM cannot continue to use would be safe with them. 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] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

2010-08-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Russ Nelson wrote: Mostly it's about community, which is why it's here and not on le...@. Unfortunately in my rebuttal of this I have to discuss legal stuff so I'll do it in legal-talk and invite anybody who is interested to read it there. Bye Frederik -- Frederik

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

2010-08-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
eone sued for share-alike they could at least point to that statement to support their cause, whereas in the future OSMF would actively reject giving such support.) The worst thing that could happen is the license change failing and OSMF afterwards pretending that we were still a share-alike project. Bye

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

2010-08-31 Thread Frederik Ramm
the community have agreed, we're only using clause 3 of the contributor terms!"). I think that most people would say that's a feature, not a problem. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33"

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

2010-09-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
s of them are necessary and some are not necessary but prudent, among them the much-discussed clause 3; 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. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail

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

2010-09-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, John Smith wrote: On 1 September 2010 17:30, Frederik Ramm 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. The sheer arrogance of all this is astounding, you and others are

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

2010-09-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
ner - one of which, sadly, you do not seem to be capable. For you, this is not a debate but an ego contest. I passionately disagree with 80n over relicensing but at least I have the impression that he is fighting for a principle, and I respect that.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] ODbL vs CC-by-SA pros and cons

2010-09-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
and which is "weak"? The differ in where exactly share-alike is applied, but they do not differ in strength. 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] Would The ODbL and BY-SA Clash In A Database Extracted From a BY-SA Produced Work?

2010-09-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
k." See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Produced_Work_-_Guideline. 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] Noise vs unanswered questions

2010-09-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
are today). But imports under ODbL do not become *impossible* with the CTs as they are suggested - they just require OSMF approval. So the question is not put very well. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33"

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Would The ODbL and BY-SA Clash In A Database Extracted From a BY-SA Produced Work?

2010-09-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
mple and doesn't actually open any loopholes because even if you took the full DB and put the PostGIS dump on a CD declaring it a Produced Work, someone who used it would fall under the reverse engineering clause. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede.

[OSM-legal-talk] Garmin Maps / Produced Works

2010-09-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
al with such questions in the future? Is the OSMF board the ultimate arbiter? Can the definition be changed to be clearer? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Garmin Maps / Produced Works

2010-09-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
er can simply refuse to agree to the contributor terms. Indeed; the publisher could even be completely oblivious of them. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ legal-talk mailin

[OSM-legal-talk] Does importing data give you a copyright?

2010-09-15 Thread Frederik Ramm
quot;owns" the resulting data in OSM? A, who devised the algorithms? B, who pushed the button and used his computing time and network bandwidth? Both? Neither? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33"

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Does importing data give you a copyright?

2010-09-15 Thread Frederik Ramm
ming a file? Does copyright then lie with the author of the complex program, or is actually pushing the button on the software in this case non-trivial enough to warrant copyright? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" __

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] SRTM data

2010-09-22 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Grant Slater wrote: The NASA SRTM filled dataset is PD licensed. No issue. The 3rd party void filled SRTM is often not PD licensed. Some sets are explicitly non-commercial. This is the case with the map that Martin mentioned, it uses the noncommercial CGIAR dataset and thus cannot make co

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

2010-09-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
d at all. I firmly believe that collecting third-party geodata into an user editable pool is NOT the main purpose of OSM, and even detracts us. Thus, I would never accept future liabilities in return for being allowed to import a third-party data source. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eM

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

2010-09-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
ople 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. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___

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

2010-09-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
he world. We are certainly not going to let the OS dictate the license we choose for our data. 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] OS Opendata & the new license

2010-09-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Kevin Cordina wrote: What's important is that the licence choice be not used as a stick to enforce a particular policy about data imports or other aspects of mapping. And vice versa. "I want to import and that's why we cannot use " is tail-wagging-dog as well. Bye Frederik ___

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

2010-09-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
risk of sidelining OSM in the long run, or such. "We already have some data that is not compatible with " is not one of them. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _

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

2010-09-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
l of this - and why should we? 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] Usage of ODbL

2010-09-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
han including it verbatim in 4.2b. 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] OS Opendata & the new license

2010-10-01 Thread Frederik Ramm
Kevin, ke...@cordina.org.uk wrote: (b) that there is a very clear (and legally sound) description of the effect of the new licence when the time comes to vote so we can make an informed decision which way to vote based on the effect it will have. I don't know how long you have been following t

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Legal or not? user srpskicrv and source = TOPO 25 VGI BEOGRAD

2010-10-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 10/02/2010 03:43 PM, Ed Avis wrote: This is pretty clear, then: OSM also needs to be usable on Serbian territory, so it can't use the maps. Right... and OSM needs to be usable in India too, so it must show Kashmir as belonging to India as it would otherwise be illegal. And of course O

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Legal or not? user srpskicrv and source = TOPO 25 VGI BEOGRAD

2010-10-03 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 10/03/2010 04:31 AM, John Smith wrote: None of those examples applies since it was a question about copyright ownership. I don't see why we should treat a nation state's laws about copyright any different than a nation state's idiosyncratic laws about maps or surveying. If you are in

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] list of user IDs having accepted the contributor terms

2010-10-10 Thread Frederik Ramm
s, i.e. "B" would be a subset of "A", so that the intersection of both would always be "B". 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] legal FAQ license

2010-10-13 Thread Frederik Ramm
ighted bits submitted by various users and combine them then they don't suddenly become copyrighted - or maybe they do, but then it's your copyright and not that of the original contributors (think of tearing a magazine to shreds and then gluing together a nice picture from the coloured pi

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

2010-10-13 Thread Frederik Ramm
this not mean that we'd have to remove their contribution from OSM immediately because the required permissions for re-use/distribution have not been granted? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'

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

2010-10-13 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Richard Weait wrote: Is there some OSM contribution or edit that is so mechanical and/or so insignificant that it need never be considered for copyright or database right? Any edit made by a robot - e.g. one that fixes spelling mistakes - certainly qualifies for "never be considered for c

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Waiving attribution illegal in any country/-ies?

2010-10-25 Thread Frederik Ramm
e author - which is something completely different! Thus, no problems with CC0, WTFPL etc. on that side. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-tal

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Use Case

2010-11-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
to share the database that contains your picture IDs keyed against locations in the ODbL case since it could be argued that that database is "derived from OSM" and "publicly used" in your service. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] license change map

2010-11-13 Thread Frederik Ramm
he JOSM startup notice which basically portrays the license change as a done deal, but so does the Wiki banner we're showing and personally I believe the only way to pull this through is indeed to make it very clear that we're committed to making the license change, rather than dithering

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Existing data

2010-11-14 Thread Frederik Ramm
that database would force you to release the whole database under ODbL which would violate the terms of CC-BY-SA. There are ways in which data could legally be combined but that's really going too much into detail for talk. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ##

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
t; isn't made explicit, but I think it is safe to say that an upgrade along that path would be possible with a lot less eyes watching than an upgrade under the upgrade per clause 3 of the CT! Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'3

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
op dissent from your Vision." when they popped up here to discuss probably didn't help). Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-tal

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
ODbL in the first place. It was Creative Commons who started the process of looking for a license that led to ODbL. It's just that Creative Commons left that process along the way. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [talk] New site about the license change

2010-11-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 11/17/10 04:26, Anthony wrote: They left what process? The goal of the process was not to find a license like the ODbL. The goal of the process was to address the sui generis database right within the CC framework. This is not a contradiction. The ODbL could well have been "the way to

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

2010-11-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
Richard, On 11/17/10 03:30, Richard Weait wrote: 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 The language sounds more human now which is good. I like it how parts of the

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

2010-11-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 11/17/10 10:46, ke...@cordina.org.uk wrote: Looking at this the eyes or a data-holder, say the OS, who is considering allowing data to be used this would be a big concern as the term means they would lose control over how their data is licensed. No, the data contributed to OSM can come

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

2010-11-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
r the currently-used licence, but you are not required to give carte blanche for future changes. I agree with Francis Davey that the current draft says this clearly enough. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09&q

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

2010-11-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 11/18/10 14:47, Richard Fairhurst wrote: (I believe that the "reasonably calculated" in 4.3 imposes a downstream requirement as part of this: in other words, you must require that attribution is preserved for adaptations of the Produced Work, otherwise you have not "reasonably calculated"

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

2010-11-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
Licensor grants to You a [...] license to do any act that is restricted by copyright [...]. These rights include, without limitation, the right to sublicense the work." Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33"

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

2010-11-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
protected by database right once again and you need a license to use it. Otherwise, only the most obscure works (certainly not a printed map) could fall under the "Produced Works" rule. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'

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

2010-11-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
Anthony, On 11/19/10 14:38, Anthony wrote: If the latter, then no, it doesn't, in itself, allow you to make a produced work, because a produced work is made from a substantial extract of data. You know what? After the license change I'll make a few produced works that way and see if OSMF sue

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

2010-11-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 11/19/10 15:38, Ed Avis wrote: That's one reason why I think a dual licence under both the proposed new licences and the existing CC-BY-SA is a good idea - because it provides a guarantee beyond doubt that all currently allowed uses of the map data will still be okay. For me, as a PD

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] proprietary data formats and ODbL

2010-11-20 Thread Frederik Ramm
lt to make any changes to it. The boundary between "just a difficult file format" and "encryption" is probably rather grey. The'd surely be on the safe side if they distributed the contents of that file on a parallel channel in an easily readable form. Bye Frederik

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