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

2015-03-10 Thread Simon Poole
Am 10.03.2015 um 02:10 schrieb Alex Barth: On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:52 PM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch mailto:si...@poole.ch wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Geocoding_-_Guideline#.22Collective_Database.22_alternative 1. Why is the input data

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

2015-02-20 Thread Simon Poole
Am 20.02.2015 um 08:52 schrieb Simon Poole: ... Treating the geocoded results plus input data as a derivative DB sidesteps various issues. ... I should have mentioned that the single biggest advantage is that it doesn't require us to supply a definition of what geocoding actually is.

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

2015-02-19 Thread Simon Poole
Am 03.11.2014 um 00:45 schrieb Alex Barth: I have two questions on the Collective DB alternative: The derivative database consists of the data that has been used as the input data for the geocoding process, as well as the data that has been gained from OpenStreetMap in the process. Any

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

2014-11-03 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-11-03 0:17 GMT+01:00 Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com: 2014-10-29 20:56 GMT+01:00 Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com: Updated: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Open_Data_License%2FGeocoding_-_Guidelinediff=1102233oldid=1076215 wouldn't it make more sense to come to a conclusion here

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

2014-11-03 Thread Alex Barth
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 6:45 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: my bad, sorry for the confusion, my comment was referring to the following edit, which was 4 minutes later:

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

2014-11-03 Thread Alex Barth
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: where in one of the first paragraphs there is this unproven claim: Geocoding Results are a Produced Work by the definition of the ODbL (section 1.): “Produced Work” – a work (such as an image, audiovisual

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

2014-11-03 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-11-03 15:05 GMT+01:00 Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com: On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: where in one of the first paragraphs there is this unproven claim: Geocoding Results are a Produced Work by the definition of the ODbL (section 1.):

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

2014-11-03 Thread Alex Barth
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: Let's presume we all followed this reading, then when would something actually fall under the definition of derivative database? Why would we still be writing to legal talk instead of using the whole OSM db as a

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

2014-11-02 Thread Alex Barth
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-10-29 20:56 GMT+01:00 Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com: Updated: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Open_Data_License%2FGeocoding_-_Guidelinediff=1102233oldid=1076215 wouldn't it make more sense

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

2014-11-02 Thread Alex Barth
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Michal Palenik michal.pale...@freemap.sk wrote: 4.4.c. Derivative Databases and Produced Works. A Derivative Database is Publicly Used and so must comply with Section 4.4. if a Produced Work created from the Derivative Database is Publicly Used. which say,

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

2014-11-02 Thread Alex Barth
I have two questions on the Collective DB alternative: The derivative database consists of the data that has been used as the input data for the geocoding process, as well as the data that has been gained from OpenStreetMap in the process. Any additional data that may be linked to this data,

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

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

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

2014-10-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-10-29 20:56 GMT+01:00 Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com: Updated: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Open_Data_License%2FGeocoding_-_Guidelinediff=1102233oldid=1076215 wouldn't it make more sense to come to a conclusion here before updating the wiki? cheers, Martin

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

2014-10-29 Thread Michal Palenik
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 08:19:10PM -0400, Alex Barth wrote: Good call on geocodes - geocoding results. That's clearer. On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: What do you think the status of a database of geocoding results is under the interpretation in

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

2014-10-29 Thread Alex Barth
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: I'm wondering if we should replace geocodes with geocoding results throughout the page. I think it improves clarity as to what is being discussed, and geocodes is not a term in common use for what we are discussing.

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

2014-10-29 Thread Alex Barth
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: A geocoding result is not the same as a database of geocoding results. Column 1 says the former is a produced work, but is silent on the latter. I updated the guide to be explicit about this case:

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

2014-10-29 Thread Alex Barth
Hey Michal - On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Michal Palenik michal.pale...@freemap.sk wrote: alex, please read 4.6 of odbl, which basically says there is no difference between derivative db and produced work with regards to database rights. 4.6 talks about disclosure standards in cases

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

2014-10-29 Thread Michal Palenik
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 04:03:03PM -0400, Alex Barth wrote: Hey Michal - On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Michal Palenik michal.pale...@freemap.sk wrote: alex, please read 4.6 of odbl, which basically says there is no difference between derivative db and produced work with regards to

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

2014-10-27 Thread Alex Barth
Picking up on Paul's offer to help along the discussion here [1]. Also copying Steve here as he's renewed his call for better addressing in OpenStreetMap - which I entirely agree with [2]. Feedback from this thread is incorporated on the wiki [2] - thanks particularly to Frederik for this work.

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

2014-10-27 Thread Paul Norman
On 10/27/2014 4:47 PM, Alex Barth wrote: Picking up on Paul's offer to help along the discussion here [1]. Also copying Steve here as he's renewed his call for better addressing in OpenStreetMap - which I entirely agree with [2]. Feedback from this thread is incorporated on the wiki [2] -

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

2014-10-27 Thread Alex Barth
Good call on geocodes - geocoding results. That's clearer. On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: What do you think the status of a database of geocoding results is under the interpretation in column 1? According to the interpretation in column 1, the ODbL

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

2014-10-27 Thread Paul Norman
On 10/27/2014 5:19 PM, Alex Barth wrote: According to the interpretation in column 1, the ODbL doesn't imply any specific licensing for geocoding results, they are Produced Works. A geocoding result is not the same as a database of geocoding results. Column 1 says the former is a produced

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

2014-08-24 Thread Alex Barth
How would the Collective Database approach work if the OSM Database must remain unmodified to be part of a Collective Database? The definition of Collective Database seems to be tailored to use cases where the OpenStreetMap database *in unmodified form* is part of a larger database. I can't quite

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

2014-08-24 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: How would the Collective Database approach work if the OSM Database must remain unmodified to be part of a Collective Database? The definition of Collective Database seems to be tailored to use cases where the OpenStreetMap

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

2014-08-21 Thread Rob Myers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/08/14 01:58 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: It would be great if people would help fill in the blanks, or correct me where I might have misrepresented the discussion. The page asserts: Geocodes are a Produced Work by the definition of the ODbL

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

2014-08-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
Rob, On 08/21/2014 06:42 PM, Rob Myers wrote: It would be great if people would help fill in the blanks, or correct me where I might have misrepresented the discussion. The page asserts: Geocodes are a Produced Work [...] The rest of the page then silently slips [...] I have tried

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

2014-08-20 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 07/25/2014 11:39 AM, Simon Poole wrote: As I've said before, I'm not convinced that trying to better define and clarify the issue by invoking the produced work clauses will lead to a satisfactory result. I would suggest that at least a comparison (for all your use cases) with a model

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

2014-08-03 Thread Mikel Maron
Hello A few days ago I commented But what discussion on legal-talk does not provide is a mechanism for ascertaining a representative community opinion on the spirit of the license; nor a legally qualified opinion on interpretation options; nor a governance mechanism for resolving the proposal

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

2014-08-03 Thread Simon Poole
Am 03.08.2014 16:16, schrieb Mikel Maron: ... If it is the understanding of the OSM Foundation, that the Legal Working Group in some ways functions like a Court, then there are several issues to raise about the separation of concerns, checks and balances if you will, in this process as

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

2014-08-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Fawlty: Anything else, dear? I mean, would you like the hotel moved a bit to the left? cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/OSM-legal-talk-Updated-geocoding-community-guideline-proposal-tp5813533p5813560.html Sent from the Legal Talk mailing list

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

2014-07-31 Thread Rob Myers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/07/14 08:46 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Il giorno 30/lug/2014, alle ore 16:44, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com mailto:a...@mapbox.com ha scritto: your lawyers did really say according to their understanding a pair of coordinates is

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

2014-07-30 Thread Tadeusz Knapik
Hello, Our lawyers' advice is captured in the guideline as shared and posted in this revision: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Open_Data_License/Geocoding_-_Guidelineoldid=1060775 Just to clarify, the above is what your lawyers sent you, except for formatting changes to

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

2014-07-30 Thread Alex Barth
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:31 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: On 7/28/2014 12:07 AM, Alex Barth wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: Please review: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Geocoding_-_Guideline Alex, you

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

2014-07-30 Thread Alex Barth
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: Am 28/lug/2014 um 09:07 schrieb Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com: Our lawyers' advice is captured in the guideline as shared and posted in this revision: your lawyers did really say according to their

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

2014-07-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Il giorno 30/lug/2014, alle ore 16:44, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com ha scritto: your lawyers did really say according to their understanding a pair of coordinates is similar to an image or a video, hence a work? Yeah, there's no definition of 'work' in the ODbL, just a non-exclusive list

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

2014-07-29 Thread Simon Poole
Am 27.07.2014 23:52, schrieb Alex Barth: On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch mailto:si...@poole.ch wrote: If you apply this to your above example, the addresses would be subject to SA (however no further information), and while potentially one could

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

2014-07-29 Thread Paul Norman
On 7/28/2014 12:07 AM, Alex Barth wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com mailto:penor...@mac.com wrote: Please review: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Geocoding_-_Guideline Alex, you mention it was based on what you've

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

2014-07-28 Thread Alex Barth
On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 11:02 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Again and 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.

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

2014-07-28 Thread Alex Barth
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: Please review: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/ Geocoding_-_Guideline Alex, you mention it was based on what you've gotten from lawyers. Is there anything that can be shared, either publicly, or with

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

2014-07-28 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 28/lug/2014 um 09:07 schrieb Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com: Our lawyers' advice is captured in the guideline as shared and posted in this revision: your lawyers did really say according to their understanding a pair of coordinates is similar to an image or a video, hence a work? The

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

2014-07-28 Thread Tadeusz Knapik
Hello, 2014-07-28 7:19 GMT+02:00 Eric Gundersen e...@mapbox.com: Accuracy is what matters, not skimping on a few $. We have dozens of large companies like this that would love to more tightly integrate their internal data with OSM via goecoding, but because of unclear guidelines are

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

2014-07-28 Thread Randy Meech
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 1:19 AM, Eric Gundersen e...@mapbox.com wrote: Let's not kid ourselves here. The overwhelming number of commercial OSM users are not driven by a motivation to help us, but by a motivation to save money (or perhaps a motivation to escape a monopolist's clutch but that

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

2014-07-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 07/28/2014 12:07 PM, Tadeusz Knapik wrote: What I'm not clear is if community guidelines are strong enough to able to change it without touching the license itself There's a couple sides to this. OSMF is limited to distributing the data under ODbL or CC-By-SA as per the contributor

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

2014-07-28 Thread Paul Norman
On 7/28/2014 6:31 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, On 07/28/2014 12:07 PM, Tadeusz Knapik wrote: What I'm not clear is if community guidelines are strong enough to able to change it without touching the license itself There's a couple sides to this. OSMF is limited to distributing the data under

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

2014-07-28 Thread Mikel Maron
I would like to add my voice to this discussion. I strongly believe that within the intended spirit of the OSM license, geocoding as defined in this proposal should _not_ trigger share alike. I also believe that the legal interpretation proposed has merit, but if legal advice suggests another

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

2014-07-28 Thread Mikel Maron
I would like to add my voice to this discussion. I strongly believe that within the intended spirit of the OSM license, geocoding as defined in this proposal should _not_ trigger share alike. I also believe that the legal interpretation proposed has merit, but if legal advice suggests another

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

2014-07-27 Thread Alex Barth
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: If you apply this to your above example, the addresses would be subject to SA (however no further information), and while potentially one could infer that these are likely the addresses of the store locations, no further

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

2014-07-27 Thread Eric Gundersen
Let's not kid ourselves here. The overwhelming number of commercial OSM users are not driven by a motivation to help us, but by a motivation to save money (or perhaps a motivation to escape a monopolist's clutch but that boils down to the same). Frederik, saving money is not the point, it's all

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

2014-07-27 Thread Paul Norman
On 7/10/2014 7:52 PM, Alex Barth wrote: Please review: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Geocoding_-_Guideline The next step is probably to update this page to represent what there is consensus on out of the discussions and remove what there isn't consensus on. Anyone want

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

2014-07-26 Thread Rob Myers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25/07/14 04:38 PM, Jake Wasserman wrote: I agree that geocoded private data must be allowed to stay private. The ODbL goes to great lengths to explain that it only covers publicly released data. At a minimum, we need to find a way to say

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

2014-07-26 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 07/26/2014 01:38 AM, Jake Wasserman wrote: The fact that we’re scaring away well-intentioned users is sad. Let's not kid ourselves here. The overwhelming number of commercial OSM users are not driven by a motivation to help us, but by a motivation to save money (or perhaps a motivation

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

2014-07-25 Thread Jake Wasserman
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: Taking a step back, is the above use case not one we'd like to support without triggering share alike? I'm directing my question to everyone, not just Paul who's taken the time to review my example above. Thanks for taking

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

2014-07-24 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 24/lug/2014 um 23:03 schrieb Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com: In this example, the database powering the geocoder is a derived database. The geocoding results are produced works, which are then collected into what forms a derivative database as part of a collective database. Not following

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

2014-07-24 Thread Randy Meech
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: Forward and reverse geocoding existing records is such a huge potential use case for OSM, helping us drive contributions. At the same time it's _the_ use case of OSM where we collide heads on with the realities and messiness of

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

2014-07-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
something that should stand up against the letter and intent of the licence we all signed up to. Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/OSM-legal-talk-Updated-geocoding-community-guideline-proposal-tp5811077p5811521.html Sent from the Legal Talk mailing list

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

2014-07-16 Thread Kai Krueger
lat/lon values of the geocoding process. Kai -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/OSM-legal-talk-Updated-geocoding-community-guideline-proposal-tp5811077p5811672.html Sent from the Legal Talk mailing list archive at Nabble.com

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

2014-07-16 Thread Kai Krueger
in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/OSM-legal-talk-Updated-geocoding-community-guideline-proposal-tp5811077p5811673.html Sent from the Legal Talk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https

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

2014-07-16 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 07/17/2014 01:25 AM, Kai Krueger wrote: For forward geocoding, the picture gets a bit more murky though, as the distinction between what is for human consumption and what is data, and thus a derived database, is much less clear cut. Indeed. If we were only talking about the enter your

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

2014-07-15 Thread Mikel Maron
This is a solid proposal and has my support. As long as the purpose of a geocoder is geocoding, and not reverse engineering OSM,  then it sensibly fits within the notions of an ODbL produced work. What I wonder is how we will move to decision making on the proposal? What's the OSMF process?  

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

2014-07-15 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 07/15/2014 01:26 PM, Mikel Maron wrote: As long as the purpose of a geocoder is geocoding, and not reverse engineering OSM, then it sensibly fits within the notions of an ODbL produced work. What if there are two processes run on a city extract - one is a SELECT * FROM

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

2014-07-15 Thread Paul Norman
On 2014-07-15 4:26 AM, Mikel Maron wrote: As long as the purpose of a geocoder is geocoding, and not reverse engineering OSM, then it sensibly fits within the notions of an ODbL produced work. A geocoder isn't a produced work or a derived database - it's software. Do you mean a geocoding

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

2014-07-15 Thread Martijn van Exel
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: On 2014-07-14 11:26 AM, Alex Barth wrote: Also if we assume geocoding yields Produced Work the definition of Substantial doesn't matter. A database that is based upon the Database, and includes any translation,

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

2014-07-15 Thread Michal Palenik
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 04:26:28AM -0700, Mikel Maron wrote: As long as the purpose of a geocoder is geocoding, and not reverse engineering OSM,  then it sensibly fits within the notions of an ODbL produced work. please, read ODbL... produced work is “Produced Work” – a work (such as an

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

2014-07-15 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-07-15 18:01 GMT+02:00 Michal Palenik michal.pale...@freemap.sk: btw, cp planet.osm.bz2 planet.png creates a produced work... LOL I'd doubt this, because an image is likely not to be read like in disk image, and not every file with an png extension will be considered an image...

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

2014-07-15 Thread Randy Meech
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Mikel Maron mikel.ma...@gmail.com wrote: This is a solid proposal and has my support. +1 This is a great effort to clarify something that causes a lot of confusion, and does so within the context of the current license. Very productive! As long as the purpose

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

2014-07-15 Thread Michal Palenik
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 06:22:29PM +0200, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2014-07-15 18:01 GMT+02:00 Michal Palenik michal.pale...@freemap.sk: btw, cp planet.osm.bz2 planet.png creates a produced work... LOL I'd doubt this, because an image is likely not to be read like in disk image, and not

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

2014-07-15 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On 11 July 2014 03:52, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: I just updated the Wiki with a proposed community guideline on geocoding. Please review: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Geocoding_-_Guideline The whole point of the share-alike aspect of our licence is to stop

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

2014-07-14 Thread Martijn van Exel
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Stephan Knauss o...@stephans-server.de wrote: Only when you start to use the process to systematically recreate a database from the process the ODbL kicks in. This is also how I'm reading

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

2014-07-14 Thread Paul Norman
On 2014-07-14 8:15 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: This is also how I'm reading this. Obviously the sticky point is the definition of what's a database in this sentence: systematically recreate a database from the process. You

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

2014-07-14 Thread Alex Barth
Also if we assume geocoding yields Produced Work the definition of Substantial doesn't matter. Taking a step back here. What do we want? From conversations around dropping share alike my impression was that there was a consensus around unlocking geocoding - even among share-alike advocates. Just

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

2014-07-14 Thread Paul Norman
On 2014-07-14 11:26 AM, Alex Barth wrote: Also if we assume geocoding yields Produced Work the definition of Substantial doesn't matter. A database that is based upon the Database, and includes any translation, adaptation, arrangement, modification, or any other alteration of the Database or

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

2014-07-14 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2014-07-14 20:26 GMT+02:00 Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com: Just like how CC-BY-SA created a grey area around the SA implications for the rendered map which wasn't good for OSM, ODbL does the same with permanent geocoding. To make OSM viable for geocoding we can't have its ODbL infecting the

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

2014-07-14 Thread Rob Myers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14/07/14 06:26 PM, Alex Barth wrote: Taking a step back here. What do we want? From conversations around dropping share alike my impression was that there was a consensus around unlocking geocoding - even among share-alike advocates. Just

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

2014-07-13 Thread Stephan Knauss
On 12.07.2014 00:46, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: Generally what I think about when reading geocoding: you'd take a list of addresses and use the database to localize (translate) them in geo coordinates. This seems to fit perfectly to the derivative db description: “Derivative Database” – Means

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

2014-07-12 Thread Simon Poole
A general note on the examples: using Nominatim as the geocoder muddies the waters a bit too much in my opinion, given that with the default options nominatim returns far more than just coordinates. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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

2014-07-11 Thread Pieren
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 5:48 AM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: On Jul 10, 2014, at 07:54 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: That collective database is then generally used to produce works that are a produced work of the database of geocoding results as part of a collective database.

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

2014-07-11 Thread Stephan Knauss
Hello Alex, Alex Barth writes: I just updated the Wiki with a proposed community guideline on geocoding. Please review: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Geocoding_-_Guideline Thank you for working on these legal guidelines. A task the typical developer is not keen to

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

2014-07-11 Thread Simon Poole
Am 11.07.2014 14:40, schrieb Stephan Knauss: .. A while ago there was a discussion about the word geocode which seems to be a trademark in some jurisdictions. So opposed to the general term geocoding the word geocode might need to be used with care. Yes, correct, Alex can you please

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

2014-07-11 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 07/11/2014 04:41 PM, Michal Palenik wrote: so wording As Geocodes are a Produced Work, they do not trigger the share-alike clauses of the ODbL. is totally against section 4.6. This was something that we often discussed during the license change - what if somebody uses produced works to

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

2014-07-11 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
Am 11/lug/2014 um 16:41 schrieb Michal Palenik michal.pale...@freemap.sk: so wording As Geocodes are a Produced Work, they do not trigger the share-alike clauses of the ODbL. is totally against section 4.6. +1 the data contained in produced works remains ruled by ODbL / share alike, this

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

2014-07-11 Thread Alex Barth
We're 100% in grey territory on geocoding and you can keep reading the ODbL in circles. “Produced Work” – a work (such as an image, audiovisual material, text, or sounds) resulting from using the whole or a Substantial part of the Contents (via a search or other query) from this Database, a

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

2014-07-11 Thread Martijn van Exel
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: We're 100% in grey territory on geocoding and you can keep reading the ODbL in circles. Yes, and thanks a lot Alex for taking the lead in writing up these guidelines. I think a lot of value in this discussion will come from well

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

2014-07-11 Thread Paul Norman
On Jul 11, 2014, at 04:11 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: What I'm looking for a is a clear interpretation by the community, supported OSMF, an interpretation that is a permissive reading of the ODbL on geocoding to unlock use cases.   Guidelines need to be accurate and supported by the

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

2014-07-10 Thread Alex Barth
I just updated the Wiki with a proposed community guideline on geocoding. In a nutshell: geocoding with OSM data yields Produced Work, share alike does not apply to Produced Work, other ODbL stipulations such as attribution do apply. The goal is to remove all uncertainties around geocoding to

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

2014-07-10 Thread Paul Norman
On Jul 10, 2014, at 07:54 PM, Alex Barth a...@mapbox.com wrote: I just updated the Wiki with a proposed community guideline on geocoding. In a nutshell: geocoding with OSM data yields Produced Work, share alike does not apply to Produced Work, other ODbL stipulations such as attribution do