Re: [OSM-legal-talk] MAPS.ME combining OSM data and non-OSM data?

2016-07-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Johan C wrote: > It's quite simple: as long as MAPS.ME operates in either the white or > the grey area of the license it's perfectly fine what they are doing. Um, no, that's precisely what "grey area" _doesn't_ mean. Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] MAPS.ME combining OSM data and non-OSM data?

2016-07-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ilya Zverev wrote: > Let's consider another use case. An application that shows OSM map, > and on top of it shows 1 mln of user points. A users has an option to > hide the OSM map underneath proprietary points, with a radius of 1 > km. Does in that moment when a user clickes the options, the >

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] new wiki page ODbL compatibility of common licenses

2016-01-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
dieterdreist wrote: > Following a thread on the OSMF-talk list, I am kindly asking you to > review and improve a new wiki page that tries to give an overview > about the compatibility of common licenses with the ODbL and CT: This is really good. Thanks, Martin. cheers Richard -- View this

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Proposed "Metadata"-Guideline

2015-10-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Alex Barth wrote: > Fixing the license surely can't be the extent of our plan, but we need > to be able to have a frank conversation about how licensing is hurting > use cases and engagement on OSM, without second guessing > people's intentions and without just showing them the door to > TomTom

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Any expert CC-BY -> ODbL negotiators?

2015-08-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Bennett wrote [quoting DELWP]: > My initial response is that we wouldn't want OSM to apply a more > restrictive license than ours In which case they've chosen the wrong licence. If you license your work under a permissive, attribution-only licence (CC-BY), then you are automatically

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using OSM data without modifying - are there any guidelines?

2015-06-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Bergmayer wrote: The problem being, of course, assuming there is no property right, there's only a contract, not a license. Contracts are not enforceable against third parties. A person who makes OSM data available without conditioning it on acceptance of the same contract, may

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using OSM data without modifying - are there any guidelines?

2015-06-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Simon Poole wrote: As the name of this list says it is legal talk (aka yapping without consequence) ... not get-help-from-the-OSMF. With my list admin hat on, I think that's a little harsh. Often, as you say, queries can be resolved by pointing to the relevant published guidelines and there's

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

2014-11-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Matt Morrow wrote: That is in contradiction to the Open Data License/Use Cases page. Please don't use that page. As per the preamble: This wiki page was used for discussion and development of the move to the Open Database License. It is not legal advice, and is likely to be inaccurate or

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

2014-08-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Admin note: nominally I'm administrator of the legal-talk@ list. In practice the only international OSM list to ever have been announced as moderated is talk@, and I think locally talk-us@ may be moderated as well. Merely administered is a much more light-touch approach and generally works well

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

2014-07-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
[I'm going to break my rule of not posting to the mailing lists for this, because it's an interesting query and important for OSM. Since I started writing this, Robert has made an excellent posting which covers much of the same ground and comes to related conclusions, but from a slightly different

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Guideline review: Substantial

2014-04-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Paul Norman wrote: Is there any relevant case law on substantial? A brief reminder that there are two useful wiki pages: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Statute_law http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Case_law which collect links to useful papers and cases. In particular Charlotte Waelde's paper

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Place name translations

2013-06-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Someoneelse wrote: Someone's being adding translations of place names using: These aren't translations, they're transliterations. General consensus is that we shouldn't add transliterations (which are essentially algorithmic) to OSM. Apparently Place names translations are public knowledge and

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

2013-02-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
WhereAmI wrote: It would appear that any and all data associated with a website or mobile app becomes fair game once OSM data is used. What? No. No, that isn't true. I'm no fan of share-alike but that is trivially disprovable. Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Question about copyrighted hiking routes in France

2013-02-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Eric Sibert wrote: They established a route that for instance allows to from city A to city B but not with the short way. Instead, it is going left and right to visit points of interest, alpine hutch and so on. They claim that such a work is an original work. Yes, I can see that. I've

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Combining Creative Commons Licensed Data with ODbL and Redistributing

2012-11-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Kate Chapman wrote: So is the new dataset a derived database? It seems like it is to me. What should we be licensing this? CC-BY is pretty much compatible with ODbL: CC-BY only requires attribution and ODbL provides that. There may be tiny differences of legalese but nothing substantive. So

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

2012-10-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Igor Brejc wrote: 4.3 Notice for using output (Contents). Creating and Using a Produced Work does not require the notice in Section 4.2. However, if you Publicly Use a Produced Work, You must include a notice associated with the Produced Work reasonably calculated to make any Person that

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licensing of works containing geocodes pinpointed on OSM data

2012-10-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jani Patokallio wrote: Any advice would be appreciated, as I still have a faint flicker of hope that we can get this past the corporate legal team and possibly even contribute back to OSM! On this specific issue: I'd suggest you consider whether your combination of OSM-derived data and other

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Mapnik attribution

2012-09-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Shu Higashi wrote: Map data (c) ODbL 1.0 OpenStreetMap contributors and Map tile (c) CC BY-SA 2.0 OpenStreetMap That would be fine, but you could also do: (c) OpenStreetMap contributors: license where license is hyperlinked to http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright cheers Richard --

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [Rebuild] Progress update

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
[followups set to legal-talk, but you may want to adjust to talk-us if focusing on LA etc.] On 21/06/2012 17:57, Alan Mintz wrote: Richard wrote: ...Given people's constraints on time and the community's (understandable) desire for the redaction to get underway asap... I've seen no such

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] What licences (other than ODbL) are compatible with OSM after 1st April

2012-03-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Mayeul Kauffmann wrote: I think data licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0 cannot be put under ODbL without written authorisation by the copyright owner. Can you confirm this? Yes, that's correct. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

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

2012-03-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ian Sergeant wrote: However, if the transition happened today in Sydney, we would lose every freeway, every trunk road, every primary road, the harbour crossings, the foreshore. All the rivers. Without wishing to play down your loss at all - I wouldn't want to be an Australian OSM user at

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Questions from a Journalist

2012-03-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Freimut - I'm happy to talk to your journalist. As you might know, my day job is as a magazine editor (our magazine celebrates its 40th anniversary this year) and therefore, you could say, I'm quite accustomed to this kind of work. Maybe you might be kind enough to forward my details to this

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

2012-03-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Michael Collinson wrote: - as an OSM community member, are you happy for the OSMF to make such a statement? - is it true? - can you see any negative consequences? I'm with Ed and Frederik on this one, I'm afraid - I don't see any way in which we can afford additional permissions on a one-off

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

2012-01-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: There's no reason for such vodoo logic. A way split or merge can be determined from looking at a changeset. A changeset in which a chain of nodes is removed from one way and added to another, new way denotes a split. I don't think that's necessarily true. If we have:

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

2012-01-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
andrzej zaborowski wrote: (I thought it is i-i+j, at least in JOSM it was up to some point) It is. But it's very difficult to extract that with certainty from a non-trivial changeset. Add enough splits, and you may find i-i+j+k+l. Then add some merges and some deletes, and you possibly have

[OSM-legal-talk] Google Maps UK - some legal angles

2011-12-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
As posted on talk-gb, Google Maps appear to have switched to using their own data rather than Tele Atlas's in the UK this morning. This raises a couple of interesting points. Firstly, it seems pretty clear to me that some of the data is OS-derived (probably from OpenData or a commercial

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

2011-11-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: I think that anything said until here will not be disputed by Richard Indeed not. :) the bit that *can* be disputed is whether or not it is permissible to label your resulting image a database and then not release the database behind it. Yep. I read the EU Database

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Retain PD mapper's contributions?

2011-11-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
andrzej zaborowski wrote: Honestly both solutions are kind of ugly because they mess up edits history. If some data is PD then it should be possible to just retain it in the event of a license change, the SQL query is unlikely to change its legal status. Surely you understand that the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Copyprotection for OSM based material

2011-11-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
!i! wrote: But to be hornest, we aren't legal experts, so it would be great to get a statement of people that are more aware of all of the legal aspects. 1. You cannot apply extra conditions to the licence (CC-BY-SA 4a, as you say). 2. Your website may have its own terms of use that restrict

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

2011-11-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: It's not like it's going to be hard to recreate all this stuff. It didn't take long to create in the first place and remapping it is going to be a lot of fun isn't it? Yep, exactly. It's actually surprisingly easy, especially with features such as railway lines that are easily

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OSM Database Re-Build

2011-11-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gert Gremmen wrote: Using this O-trick violates the copyright of the previous owner, just as copying from google would violate their terms of service. As they have been for at least three years now, Gert, your opinions about Potlatch are 100% venting and 0% actual knowledge

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

2011-08-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
There's a curious statement in the LWG minutes for 2nd August (https://docs.google.com/View?id=dd9g3qjp_1252tt382df). Folks who have declined the new contributor terms but said their contributions are public domain. There has been a suggestion that such contributions should be maintained in

[OSM-legal-talk] Fwd: ODbL for applications that transfer data from other road networks

2011-08-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
[Forwarding two messages to the list from Angelika Voss - her messages have been rejected but there's no sign of them in the admin interface AFAICT. -- Richard, legal-talk admin] Hello, I would like to get your oppinion regarding the ODbL for the use case described below. I have asked

[OSM-legal-talk] Fwd: ODbL for publications comparing OSM with a reference dataset

2011-08-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
[second forwarded message -- Richard, legal-talk admin] Hello again, for one more use case I would like to get your oppinion regarding the ODbL. Your answers are relevant for our research, and could be relevant for Muki Haklay and others who compare OSM with other reference datasets to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A case for CT + CC-BY-SA

2011-07-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: Interesting slip... of course I meant to say 'contacting'... :) So are there cases where people are thumbing their nose at the licence, but somehow if we used ODbL they would fall into line? Couldn't tell you that without reading their minds! I honestly don't know how many

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A case for CT + CC-BY-SA

2011-07-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tordanik wrote: I see that the ODbL fits your particular use case nicely. But as you acknowledge, things look different for people with other use cases. I expect that I'm one of those people whose favourite use cases won't benefit from ODbL - quite the opposite, in fact. I can certainly

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A case for CT + CC-BY-SA

2011-07-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tordanik wrote: Currently, we offer reasonable terms to good guys. Bad guys might be able to squeeze out a bit more in some jurisdictions if they can live with bad press and severed community ties. That doesn't happen a lot, though - as far as I can tell - and the possibility just doesn't

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Who owns the copyright with ODbl?

2011-07-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Guy Collins wrote: Excuse this question if it has been answered in a wiki somewhere, but I would very much like to know who owns copyright of any data contributed under the Open Database Licence? The brief answer is: the mapper does, just as they do under our current licence (CC-BY-SA).

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

2011-07-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Maarten Deen wrote: Turn restrictions, maximum speeds, oneway streets, even the value of the highway tag is not a geographical fact. Sure they are. If I walk about 20 yards from my front door, there's a no entry sign at a certain lat/long. If I walk a bit further along, facing the other way,

[OSM-legal-talk] Remapping - tags and practice

2011-07-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, As the licence change draws on, we will inevitably be looking at remapping objects touched by a decliner. I'm interested in how we (as users) tackle something like this: user A (agrees) surveys and maps user B (agrees) refines geometry and tags user C (agrees)

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

2011-07-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Groom wrote: We also have be mindful of the OSM guideline of substantial [1], which seems to indicate that only very small extracts counts as insubstantial. I think the thing about these guidelines is that they are meant to be Community Guidelines: here's what the OSM community expects

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

2011-06-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jonathan Harley wrote: Really I'm at a loss to see the point of the share-alike clause (4.4). I can't think of a use-case for OSM where processing the database doesn't reduce the amount of information. The canonical case, often cited by those who say OSM needs a share-alike licence, is to

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

2011-06-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: If, on the other hand, out of the black box comes a derived database, then you can simply share *that* database and nobody cares what happened in the black box, because you only have to share the last in a chain of derived databases that leads to a produced work, right?

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

2011-06-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robert Whittaker wrote: A major purpose of the CTs is to ensure that all the data remaining in OSM is suitable for re-licensing under any Free and Open license without the need for further checks. No, that hasn't been the case since Contributor Terms 1.2 were proposed in November 2010 and

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

2011-06-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
(continuing from previous message, d'oh) In the event of a future relicensing, LWG and the community would need to check existing data and delete it if so. See also CT 1.2.x 1b which explicitly envisages this possibility: if we suspect that any contributed data is incompatible, (in the sense

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Private negotiations.

2011-06-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gert Gremmen wrote: Some of us try to minimize the number of refused CT (about 400) but I have the strong feeling that those are mainly found in the old core of the first 1000 of OSM mappers, the founders that were interested in real free data. Wut? AFAIK the three contributors with the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Private negotiations

2011-06-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Quintin Driver wrote: Richard, have you or any of the LWG members done any work for MapQuest, Skobbler and / or Cloudmade ? Wow. I'm not an LWG member and I've never done any work for MapQuest, Skobbler and/or CloudMade. Where on earth did that come from and what on earth has it got to do

[OSM-legal-talk] Private negotiations

2011-06-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
I'm led to believe that people have been issuing LWG with private lists of demands that they want met before they will consent to ODbL+CT. Could I ask that said people have the courtesy to post their demands here, too? It would be a shame if the suspicion arose that the process is being swayed

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

2011-04-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen wrote: [some hard-to-follow stuff] Gert - could you quote in the same way that everyone else does, please? i.e. no top-posting, snip the bits of the message you're replying to, prefix each line of quoting with , line-wrap your quotes properly. It

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Request for clarification (for German translation) of CTs 1.2.4

2011-03-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Francis Davey wrote: droit d'auteur does not (as I understand the term) include database right. Its un droit des producteurs de bases de données rather than un droit d'auteur (forgive my atrocious French - its been nearly 30 years since I studied it). Nearly 20 years here, but FWIW,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Request for clarification (for German translation) of CTs 1.2.4

2011-03-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Francis Davey wrote: I hope that makes sense and is not too mad. Absolutely. I guess what the Wikipedia article tells us is that informally (if incorrectly) one is often called the other and that, perhaps, is where the confusion in the French translation lies. cheers Richard -- View this

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Request for clarification (for German translation) of CTs 1.2.4

2011-03-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Fairhurst wrote: [some stuff] Apparently CT 1.2.4 in French have just this moment gone live: http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Contributor_Terms/FR cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/OSM-legal-talk-Request-for-clarification

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

2011-02-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jonathan Harley wrote: Making it impossible to make works where not all of the elements are free does nothing to protect the freedom of individuals to use OSM. That's as may be, but to restate the point made by Frederik, you can't simply wish away what the licence _actually_ _says_, simply

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] UK mapping authority switches to Open Government Licence

2011-01-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
davespod wrote: If we assume that the reading of ODBL in the LWG minutes is correct, then ODBL would not require attribution of OSM's sources in produced works (e.g., maps), rather only attribution of the OSM database. I'm restating what I said in

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] UK mapping authority switches to Open Government Licence

2011-01-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Mike Collinson wrote: Thanks, David. Bother. Either it refers only to Royal Mail-tainted Code-Point data as immediately above the text or the OS are pulling a fast one by re-writing the OGL ... making it effectively their old problematic license. Assuming the latter we'll need to lobby.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] UK mapping authority switches to Open Government Licence

2011-01-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: Erm doesn't that invalidate the flexibility or relicense in future people keep going on about? I think Mike already answered that one at http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2011-January/005716.html . cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] UK mapping authority switches to Open Government Licence

2011-01-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
davespod wrote: Richard wrote: Mike Collinson wrote It incorporates the Open Government License for pubic sector information I sincerely hope it doesn't say that! I'm afraid it does. For those who are similarly humourously challenged may I point out that I have checked and no, the OS

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

2011-01-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote: hopefully OS will switch to the new Open Government License soon, which is explicitly compatible with ODbL. They switched today. :) cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

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

2011-01-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: I still don't understand how data could be accepted on that basis in the first place, either there has to be firm statements that such data would be removed, not may be removed As I said to Robert last night, I don't think you need to explicitly write we will not do

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

2011-01-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: I think that actions speak louder than words svn is that way cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/OSM-legal-talk-CTs-and-the-1-April-deadline-tp5887879p5891828.html Sent from the Legal Talk mailing list archive at

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

2011-01-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: On 5 January 2011 22:41, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: As I said to Robert last night, I don't think you need to explicitly write we will not do anything illegal into the Contributor Terms [...] What's with the comparisons of contract law and criminal law

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

2011-01-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gert Gremmen wrote: Free data needs no license or CT. I agree! I'm really glad you - like me and many others - are dedicating your data to the public domain. No licence, no CT. Once OSM continues under new license and CT (as currently presented) I demand to have my owned data withdrawn. Oh,

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

2011-01-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: I was under the impression that only the US had personal copyright infringement as a criminal offence... It's an offence in EW whether personal or commercial. For a business, it's an offence to distribute copyrighted material without licence; for an individual, it's an

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

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 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] Someone already had a look at theBing TermsofUse?

2010-12-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andrew Harvey wrote: We need to find a norm as a community so we don't have this conflict. We do have a norm as a community. 99% of people are tracing from Bing imagery and you're not. Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New phrase in section 2

2010-12-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: In addition, some licences (such as the new UK Open Government Licence) openly avow compatibility with ODC's attribution licences (ODC-By and ODbL). Nice bait and switch... Goodness me, John, do you have to be so confrontational about _everything_?! In your first

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New phrase in section 2

2010-12-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Simon Poole wrote: Asking a mapper community with a majority of non-lawyer, non-native English speakers to determine if two licenses are compatible (one of which will always be quite complex) with some degree of certainty is just a joke. Not at all. Most imports will fall under one of a

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] some interesting points from the bing license

2010-12-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Sam Larsen wrote: you cannot create permanent, offline copies of the imagery Isn't this why we couldn't use SPOT imagery for HOT in Pakistan using Potlatch - we were only able to use JOSM ( others) due to local caching of tiles in Potlatch. Is this an issue? No. Caching is not

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] some interesting points from the bing license

2010-12-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andrew Harvey wrote: I am yet to see a license. http://opengeodata.org/microsoft-imagery-details has a set of terms of use embedded in the post specifically for OSM. It's a Scribd document and therefore requires Flash Player. There is also a PDF download link. If you are unable to see the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New phrase in section 2

2010-12-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
David Groom wrote: If the OSMF board wish to move OSM to PD They don't, rendering the rest of your e-mail moot. I mean, personally I think it'd be lovely if they did, but they don't. I'm slightly amazed that anyone can consider this who has ever read any licence-related postings by the chairman

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] some interesting points from the bing license

2010-12-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andrew Harvey wrote: But that is opengeodata.org, not Microsoft, you would need a license from Microsoft. It was posted on OGD by a Microsoft employee and I can confirm I've had the exact same licence sent from a Microsoft e-mail address. I believe there'll be a Bing Maps blog post going up

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] some interesting points from the bing license

2010-12-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Fairhurst wrote: I believe there'll be a Bing Maps blog post going up soon on the same topic. http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/maps/archive/2010/12/01/bing-maps-aerial-imagery-in-openstreetmap.aspx Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Bing - Terms of Use

2010-12-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andrew Harvey wrote: Just to clarify is this http://www.microsoft.com/maps/product/terms.html the document which contains the license grant? No; the document is the one embedded in the OpenGeoData posting (http://opengeodata.org/microsoft-imagery-details). Like I say I'd envisage it might be

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] some interesting points from the bing license

2010-12-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andrew Harvey wrote: Is this available from Microsoft somewhere or a Microsoft web site? It was posted on OpenGeoData by a Microsoft employee and I had a copy e-mailed to me (in advance) by a Microsoft employee. Like I've said at least twice now :) , it may need some firming up so please don't

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Bing - Terms of Use

2010-11-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Sebastian Klein wrote: I don't really understand this paragraph, does it mean they want us to give them the vector data we trace from their imagery, so they can use it any form? No. Bear in mind that us means Microsoft when you read this: | [2] 5. Your Content. Except for material that we

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CT, section 3

2010-11-26 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Olaf Schmidt-Wischhöfer wrote: b) Many people contribute to OpenStreetMap and would prefer a Public Domain license. [...] I do not know, however, whether people in group b are interested in a compromise or whether a fork of OpenStreetMap is seen as inevitable anyway. Plenty of PD

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Share alike

2010-11-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: You are not free to ignore the share-alike clause. You are simply avoiding it by not publishing the combined work. The ever-unreliable dictionary on this Mac defines publish as print (something) in a book or journal so as to make it generally known: we pay $10 for every letter we

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Share alike

2010-11-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: I see the example. Are you saying that this is a problem? It looks perfectly fine to me. Depends what you mean by problem. If I were to contrast Scenario A (applying styles programmatically as in the geowiki.com example, and delivering it via a Flash applet) and Scenario B

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Share alike

2010-11-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: There's a disconnect in your argument. No, there isn't, because: Your evenings of effort and your knowledge, skill and personal judgement are not subject to CC-BY-SA licensing and are irrelevant. The end product of all that effort is the thing that is relevant. That end

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

2010-11-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
[follow-ups to legal-talk, where this thread really should have started] Kevin Peat wrote: Personally I don't care if the current license is weak as most organisations will respect its spirit and if a few don't who cares, it doesn't devalue our efforts one cent. I can't see how changing to an

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

2010-11-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Kevin Peat wrote: But isn't the bit that's causing the bulk of the discussion a limited part of the CTs, not ODbL per se? For most people, yes, though there are a few people for whom ODbL per se is unpalatable (I think 80n is one, but he can correct me if I'm wrong). Personally I don't have

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

2010-11-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: I feel the same way but I come to different conclusions because of different starting assumptions. Sure. YMMV and no two people come at this with the same philosophy. My strongly-held belief is that, just as it's generally accepted that to discriminate against fields of

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

2010-11-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Anthony wrote: I really don't get this. We have been through this before. I have no interest in engaging with you - the sole person about whom I'll say that after six years in this project - as a result of the ad hominem you resorted to last time round. I will happily talk to Etienne, John,

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

2010-10-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Elizabeth Dodd wrote: I ask once more from where did OSMF get a mandate to change the licence? It doesn't. That's why it's asking the rights-holders to change the licence for the data which they've contributed[1]. What OSMF does have, though, is a mandate to host whatever it likes at

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

2010-10-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
TimSC wrote: It may be possible to argue that OSMF did try to engage the community. Rather than me try to make the case, it's more fun seeing what justifications people are trying to use on the mailing list! Seriously? You actually see this as some sort of trolling contest, trying to get

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Usage of ODbL

2010-09-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: However, under the proposed licence change and contributor terms, OSM would not be able to participate fully in this commons. Although the ODbL would allow others to take the OSM data and combine it with other ODbL or permissive- licensed data sources, the OSM project

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

2010-09-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
kevin wrote: The issue here is a licence has been chosen, that appears incompatible with current practise Think you've got your chronology the wrong way round there. Blog post on moving to ODbL: January 2008. [1] OS OpenData released: April 2010. Richard [1]

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

2010-09-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote: The ODbL already doesn't enforce viral attribution on derivatives of produced works I don't intend to go over the argument on this again, but treat this message as a little stake in the ground with I disagree with the above statement written on it. cheers

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

2010-09-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
(Replying to two messages at once as they seem related) Anthony wrote: But it's quite a leap from some databases (e.g. white pages) are non-copyrightable in some jurisdictions and databases are non-copyrightable. In fact, I'd say it's quite plainly false. Oh, absolutely. Copyright and

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

2010-09-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
TimSC wrote: I would have hoped the guy who established moderation on the lists would have thought to avoid insulting people. Will the other moderators do their job or just rally round Steve, regardless what he says on the list? There are no other moderators. Apart from Steve's

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

2010-09-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Anthony wrote: Given your arguments on this list, I'd guess you're quite prepared to believe anything that might help prevent you from admitting that you are wrong. At this point the argument has departed from factual/philosophical to ad hominems, so I'll bow out. To anyone who's listened,

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

2010-08-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Anthony wrote: [Jane Smith] copyright are the chains of the modern worker, holding to the means of Production. Are there any moderators here? Can we get this troll banned please. I'm the list administrator for legal-talk. I'm not quite sure what offence 'Jane Smith' might have committed

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Fwd: Using OSM material for our online tool

2010-08-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ole Brandenburg wrote: I would be thankful if someone can point me in the right direction. We plan to use the OSM API for our map tool (at stepmap.de). We currently have a list of roughly 1,500 pre-defined maps and a zoom-feature that enables users to create their own map/region. The OSM

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

2010-08-26 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Anthony wrote: Another possibility is to assign the task of deciding what share alike means to Creative Commons. Of course, that isn't likely to work if you want to go with the ODbL... I suspect CC's answer would be similar to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Is CC-BY-SA is compatible with ODbL?

2010-08-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Michael Collinson wrote: I have moved this from [OSM-talk] Voluntary re-licensing begins to legal talk as it is worth further discussion in view of dilemmas faced by our Australian community. I understand that CC-BY-SA is currently a preferred vehicle for releasing government data. Is

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Is CC-BY-SA is compatible with ODbL?

2010-08-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Francis Davey wrote: Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote Is it? I thought most of the Australian Government data was CC-BY - a much easier problem. But still incompatible with the contributor terms in the sense that a CC-BY licensee does not have sufficient rights to agree

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

2010-08-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ed Avis wrote: Anthony writes: I'm currently working on a fork. I'm still hopeful that people will find some compromise, and it won't be needed. (Myself I would be quite happy if the project chose a dual licence.) But if a fork proves necessary, I'll be happy to help. My impression

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