Re: [OSM-legal-talk] compatibility with CC licenses

2009-03-02 Thread Gustav Foseid
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.comwrote: There has been some discussion of adding a tag into the planet.osm header detailing that the data is licensed. Also adding some contract text on http://planet.openstreetmap.org/ to cover our non-eu-database-right

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] compatibility with CC licenses

2009-03-02 Thread Frederik Ramm
Grant, Grant Slater wrote: There has been some discussion of adding a tag into the planet.osm header detailing that the data is licensed. Actually this is exactly what the license suggests: Quoting 4.2 (b) [You must] Include a copy of this Licence [...] or its Uniform Resource Identifier

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] compatibility with CC licenses

2009-03-02 Thread Gustav Foseid
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Quoting 4.2 (b) [You must] Include a copy of this Licence [...] or its Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) [...] both in the Database [...] and in any relevant documentation Sorry, overlooked that. If this is in the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] compatibility with CC licenses

2009-03-01 Thread Rob Myers
John Wilbanks wrote: (although I find the idea that freedom can only come from the barrel of a license deeply depressing). That's CC Zero out of the running then. If Big Company decides to run a mechanical turk contest on Amazon to extract facts from your DB one at a time, do they violate

[OSM-legal-talk] compatibility with CC licenses

2009-02-28 Thread John Wilbanks
merging several threads here I am not speaking for CC the organization here - there have been no conversations to my knowledge about doing a compatibility check between ODbL and CC licensing. But, I would remind everyone that the current official CC policy on CC licenses and databases -

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] compatibility with CC licenses

2009-02-28 Thread Simon Ward
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:42:57PM -0500, John Wilbanks wrote: I am not speaking for CC the organization here - there have been no conversations to my knowledge about doing a compatibility check between ODbL and CC licensing. But, I would remind everyone that the current official CC policy