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] 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] 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

2011-08-10 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

[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

2011-08-16 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

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

[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] 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

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] 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] 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

2011-11-28 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
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] 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] 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] 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

[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] 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

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
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] [OSM-talk] Relations and the license change

2011-12-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
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[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] 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

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

2011-12-25 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

2011-12-26 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] [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

2011-12-27 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] 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
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] 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] 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

2012-01-13 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

[OSM-legal-talk] Way with almost nothing left but created by decliner

2012-01-13 Thread Frederik Ramm
whole object. 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] Mixing OSM and FOSM data

2012-01-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
one step back and you'll see that basically we're all of the same tribe. And this is what is difficult to understand. The tribe and its "sub-group" are still far closer in culture, ideas, and outlook than the tribes on the other side of the river. They should stick together.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Implementing the licence change

2012-01-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
ding to the then-believed-final rules, it could happen that someone later points out an oversight, or a court decides something, forcing us to remove things we thought we could keep or vice versa. You can only ever go up to 80% certainty in these matters. Demanding more is

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Copyright of large-scale imports vs. small edits

2012-01-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
gnore the copyright of small contributors because they won't sue anyway" Not my style. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ legal-talk mailing lis

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Mixing OSM and FOSM data

2012-01-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 01/19/12 03:07, andrzej zaborowski wrote: Giżycko is one example, http://osm.org/go/0Pp7zn7~-- . As FK28.. pointed out the major such cases are where mappers who imported ODbL-incompatible data accepted the Contributor Terms or CT-accepters import ODbL-incompatible data. With version 1.2

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Implementing the licence change

2012-01-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
order to prevent us from overseeing something. Well if you find certainty, be sure to inform us since we'll be very interested ;) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" __

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL implementation plan - extra phase proposal

2012-01-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
hase would actually make people re-map more and better compared to the phase we are in now? And if so, why? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ legal-talk mailing list leg

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] The Copyright of Split Ways

2012-01-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
ice versa. There are simply not so many cases of that to warrant all the brouhaha that is made. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstre

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

2012-02-13 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, (taking this to legal-talk from talk where it doesn't belong) On 02/13/12 00:00, nicholas.g.lawre...@tmr.qld.gov.au wrote: I accepted the license, and also ticked the box that said I was happy with my contributions to be considered public domain. Hypothetically, if some years in the future

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

2012-02-13 Thread Frederik Ramm
* us that there is this additional requirement (CT only require that the mapper makes sure data is "compatible with current license") Any future license change to, say, CC-BY or GFDL3.15 or whatever would then require that data to be deleted, but we wouldn't even know that.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [Rebuild] Too many things to do before a license change

2012-02-13 Thread Frederik Ramm
anybody involved has already booked his vacation after April 1st, we may continue in May to pursue a clean license change. Cheers -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ legal-talk mailin

[OSM-legal-talk] Is the license change easily reversible?

2012-02-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
2/3 of active contributors" clause and therefore create a situation in which no future OSMF can change the license without going through what we go through now. Of course the CTs cannot be changed retroactively but doing so for new signups is effective enough. Bye

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

2012-03-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
moving this burden from UMP, then OSMF could offer to publish a derived non-highway database themselves, which would lead to UMP only having to point to that database and say "there's our source and it's ODbL". Bye Frederik -- Freder

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] What happens on April 1?

2012-03-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
appy to lose a few roads in the US". These reasons are especially bad because they an be repeated month after month and thus could make the process drag on endlessly. 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] Questions from a Journalist

2012-03-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
r journalist to contact RichardF directly. 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] Infringements - examples, analysis and request for removal

2012-03-31 Thread Frederik Ramm
with the exact same number of nodes which all have the exact same relative position to each other. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ legal-talk mailing lis

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Creative-Commons 4.0 (first draft)

2012-04-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
s the database", or if in CC's case the adaptation is only the web site with the route instructions... Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ legal-talk mailing list lega

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Creative-Commons 4.0 (first draft)

2012-04-10 Thread Frederik Ramm
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] Signing of Contributor Terms

2012-04-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
ne else's copyright because the original owner already authorized OSMF to distribute their 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

[OSM-legal-talk] Best-Practise to use OSM data in games

2012-05-10 Thread Frederik Ramm
don't see a problem anymore, as there wouldn't be a problem for me to provide something like "live-views" of the data. But it would be nice to hear some comments if I'm right, about the way to handle the data!? -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°0

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Fwd: using OSM in our commercial application

2012-05-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
Does this mean that they can do that Sure. 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] Triggering ShareAlike in Government

2012-06-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
copies for you that would already be distribution. (What happens of the MoD takes an OSM map, draws a little bit on top of it and stamps it "secret" - is that allowed at all, given that the current license requires that they must not add any restrictions to the material...?) Bye Fr

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OpenStreetMap's Trademark Licensing Policy

2012-06-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
n't). But as I said at the beginning, I'm not aware of any policy already in existence. As a rule of thumb, as long as you don't do anything that provokes a community outcry you'll probably be ok. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.

[OSM-legal-talk] ASTER or no ASTER?

2012-07-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
derived products that are re-distributable?" "2. Creating a slope map" This all sounds as if I *can* download the data and use it for hillshading as long as I don't redistribute the data itself. Doesn't it? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@r

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A license bot that has produced too many errors

2012-07-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
out "Redaction 1"/"Redaction 2". If you have any Rails skills then your help is certainly welcome. 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] Some questions about using ODbL "Produced Work" maps in Wikipedia

2012-07-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
ne took the image from Wikipedia and then credited "Wikipedia" - they *have* to continue to use the OSM attribution and ODbL license notice or else they violate CC-BY-SA. But that's the same with any other image on Wikipedia so I guess it should be clear to all.) Bye Frederik --

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Some questions about using ODbL "Produced Work" maps in Wikipedia

2012-07-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
whether you get away with it is probably a question of jurisdiction. (If anyone wants to pursue this discussion I would very much ask them to peruse the mailing list archives with the search term "reverse engineering" and read up on past discussions so that we don't have to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Some questions about using ODbL "Produced Work" maps in Wikipedia

2012-07-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
could team up with a co-publisher, publish your ODbL Produced Works to him and he forwards them to the world without you ever having to release anything. It would be a loophole that demands quick fixing ;) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Some questions about using ODbL "Produced Work" maps in Wikipedia

2012-07-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
ossible to licene Produced Works under CC, or we will have to explicitly disallow it. 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] Some questions about using ODbL "Produced Work" maps in Wikipedia

2012-07-22 Thread Frederik Ramm
ated re-extraction of our data with less than x% precision loss is a derivative database and never a produced work -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-tal

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Some questions about using ODbL "Produced Work" maps in Wikipedia

2012-07-22 Thread Frederik Ramm
y the power to direct their activities (such as contracting with an independent consultant). <<< 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] Some questions about using ODbL "Produced Work"

2012-07-24 Thread Frederik Ramm
it is not mentioned at all. I think you need a better example No; the example is good enough for me, thank you ;) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ legal-talk mailing lis

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Please, consider that more people want to mark even their future ODBl OSM contributions as CC-BY-SA compatible

2012-07-27 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 22:33:59 +0200 andrzej zaborowski wrote: > That's not the point, you still can't mix the future OSM data with > CC-By-SA data in the same database and publish that. This ability to > "mix" is one of the main features of free licensing and if you're > using a license incom

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Please, consider that more people want to mark even their future ODBl OSM contributions as CC-BY-SA compatible

2012-07-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 01:23:00 +0200 Tobias Knerr wrote: > Not dropping CC-BY-SA would send the signal that ... everything that has been said about CC-BY-SA not sufficiently protecting our data was rubbish, and that we are happy with every user choosing whichever is the "weaker" license for t

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Please, consider that more people want to mark even their future ODBl OSM contributions as CC-BY-SA compatible

2012-07-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 12:44:41 + Mike Dupont wrote: > Lets be clear here, I think the problems is not because of the license > change, but the contributor terms , ( the click through license and > the mass collection of all IP rights by the OSF). There is no click-through license. There

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] OSMF Board & auto industry / What's the story?

2012-08-10 Thread Frederik Ramm
they have liability paranoia. Therefore I think neither license is an obstacle for them, because neither forces them to open up the car navigation system to free imports by the user. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33"

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] OSMF Board & auto industry / What's the story?

2012-08-10 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 08/10/2012 10:09 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: The ODbL has a clause softening that rule (4.7. b "parallel distribution"), which essentially says that you can distribute DRM-encumbered databases if you offer a non-DRM alternative that is "at least as accessible as the non-rest

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] displaying results of processed OSM data

2012-10-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
license also has alternatives to "making the data available"; you could also make the process available that leads to the data. But I assume this is not an interesting option for you. -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___

[OSM-legal-talk] SOTM-US geocoding/share-alike discussion

2012-10-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
accept that; I don't think that "geocode as much as you want without sharing any data" is possible with the ODbL data set. 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] Is there a PD part in OSM?

2012-10-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
d I guess there will be some loophole to make it not 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] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-22 Thread Frederik Ramm
s (unless you put some in). If you sell the work with an OSM attribution but without the condition to perpetuate that attribution, you may be in breach of ODbL or you may not; this depends on how you interpret the "suitably calculated to make anyone ... aware" clause. Bye Frederi

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-22 Thread Frederik Ramm
ot;, or "buy ArcGIS and then do that" - but what if the algorithm includes "run this code, it will take 1000 days", or "make sure your machine has at least 1 TB of RAM, then continue as follows...". Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [Talk-us] press from SOTM US

2012-10-22 Thread Frederik Ramm
ot interested in a functioning road network at all but who would be prepared to invest quite a bit of money to "switch2osm" their geocoding. So it seems that maybe address data is as valuable as the street network and should have the same level of protection? Bye Frederik -- Fred

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [Talk-us] press from SOTM US

2012-10-23 Thread Frederik Ramm
ding..."; OSM has even been offered, on several occasions, "donated" POI data where it later turned out that they had not surveyed the POI locations but just ran their addresses by a commercial geocoder and disregarded the license restrictions. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [Talk-us] press from SOTM US

2012-10-25 Thread Frederik Ramm
sufficiently secretive as not to hurt their business. I'm willing to hear concrete examples but I think that talk of "giving up" and "too much at stake" sound like OSM was unsuitable for geocoding which in my opinion it clearly isn't! Bye Frederik -- Frederik R

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-30 Thread Frederik Ramm
o: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Closed_Issues#What_sort_of_access_to_Derivative_Databases_is_required.3F The page is quite old; the green boxes represent legal advice that we have received at the time. Bye Frederik -- F

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Collective database

2012-11-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
nd out the fastest route at a given time of day or so - that kind of tight integration with OSM data would clearly be "ask a lawyer" terrain if you want to determine wheter you have a collective or derivative database. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] (c) statement on openstreetmap.org slippy map?

2013-01-17 Thread Frederik Ramm
for the purpose of instruction - some people might look at our web page and think "I'll simply do as they do, they'll know what is right". Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" __

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

2013-02-27 Thread Frederik Ramm
s you from prohibiting stuff! 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 data on copy-protected storage

2013-04-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
ardware device that can *only* play the encrypted cards, would a "here's the pbf download" link not be less accessible for him...? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" __

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Question on publication of slides with Google and Bing screenshots

2013-09-10 Thread Frederik Ramm
use and I'm not bound by their respective license terms. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Wiki Mapia Mass Upload

2013-09-15 Thread Frederik Ramm
ivated as a base map in tha layer switcher) seems to indicate that buildings look similar to OSM but not the same (my guess - both imported from same source?) while many parks, commercial areas, and graveyards seem to have 100% identical geometries to OSM. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ##

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] propriety layer over OSM

2013-10-26 Thread Frederik Ramm
yer would not have to be released because OSM was not used in creating it. Was that layperson friendly enough? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ legal-talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Attribution Requirements

2014-01-13 Thread Frederik Ramm
ace. I don't think that's acceptable. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Attribution Requirements

2014-01-13 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 13.01.2014 22:52, Stephan Knauss wrote: > As long as other map suppliers like Google and > Bing are happy by being only credited on a separate page, Are they? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09&

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using Google Street View to perform "virtual survey"

2014-04-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
ut the facts depicted by the images are not > property of Google. > >Your thoughts, please The general opinion on this list has been, for cases where there wasn't a clear-cut license that answers these questions: "We'll use the data if the copyright owner says we can

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

2014-05-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
g speed recordings to OSM street data to find out which street the recording was for in the first place, thereby creating a derivative database. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33"

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

2014-05-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
inition of feature types arbitrary - could I make a restaurant database where I take "all revolving Italian rooftop restaurants" from OSM and all others from a different data set, or is "revolving Italian rooftop restaurant" too specific a

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

2014-07-11 Thread Frederik Ramm
n the page are essentially such misunderstandings, unless of course they are not substantial. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@ope

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

2014-07-15 Thread Frederik Ramm
ause if it is, it seems to require a *lot* more explanation because it doesn't sound very convincing to me. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ legal-talk mailing list l

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

2014-07-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
n of "is this for human consumption or for a computer's", it is clearly for a computer's - since the coordinates form the basis for filtering which items to display to the user. A human wouldn't be able to sift through the list so quickly. B

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

2014-07-26 Thread Frederik Ramm
again we hear, make it easier for people to geocode their proprietary databases and OSM can only benefit from it because everyone who saves $$$ using OSM somehow magically "helps" OSM. I'm not convinced of that. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°

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

2014-07-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
look at the letter of the license but also at the process that has led to its implementation, or in other words, at the intention that people had when they implemented the license. And that, in turn, is probably why we're talking so much about use cases and do-we-want-this and do-we-want-tha

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

2014-08-20 Thread Frederik Ramm
t; alternative because the idea is that your proprietary data (store opening times or whatnot) form a collective database with the ODbL-Share-Alike location data. It would be great if people would help fill in the blanks, or correct me where I might have misrepresented the discussion. Bye Frederik -

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

2014-08-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
ly an empty column for use cases #2-#4 and #7. I added no extra column for #5 and #6 because those struck me as identical under both interpretations but of course I might be wrong. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Regarding community guidelines for map layers

2014-11-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
ely deciding what to show in a produced > work from a 'closed' database by comparing against an odbl licensed > database somehow imposes that the closed database must also be odbl? Not the closed database, only the selection made from the closed database with the help of ODbL-licensed

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