Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Someone ought to do something ... dealing with violations of OSM's geodata license

2011-03-21 Thread Francis Davey
On 21 March 2011 14:53, David Groom revi...@pacific-rim.net wrote: - Original Message - From: Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz To: Licensing and other legal discussions. legal-talk@openstreetmap.org Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2011 4:23 PM Subject: [OSM-legal-talk] Someone ought to do

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Someone ought to do something ... dealing with violations of OSM's geodata license

2011-03-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Robert Kaiser wrote: I think all that is needed is a clear statement from OSMF saying that they don't feel responsible for chasing up violators Such a statement would invite everyone to use our data freely and without attribution or license care as it basically says the organization

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Someone ought to do something ... dealing with violations of OSM's geodata license

2011-03-21 Thread ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen
Francis wrote: I certainly agree that taking legal action should be low on any list. It can be expensive, risky and time consuming. +1 If you want to prevent unattributed uses and so on, having a dedicated team of volunteers to work out the best approaches (and different

[OSM-legal-talk] Someone ought to do something ... dealing with violations of OSM's geodata license

2011-03-20 Thread Michael Collinson
This is a general question for discussion from the License Working Group. I may also ask on the main list as the constituency is different. There are now 1 to 2 reports every month of folks violating OSM's license by using OSM's data or maps without any or without adequate CC-BY-SA

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Someone ought to do something ... dealing with violations of OSM's geodata license

2011-03-20 Thread M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
there is this page in the wiki http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lacking_proper_attribution to document and keep trace. cheers, Martin ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Someone ought to do something ... dealing with violations of OSM's geodata license

2011-03-20 Thread Frederik Ramm
Mike, There are now 1 to 2 reports every month of folks violating OSM's license by using OSM's data or maps without any or without adequate CC-BY-SA attribution and they take several weeks to fix on average. I agree that this should not burden the LWG. We have this community-run lacking