Hi Tom,
Where do I find the sysadmin policy for evaluating whether a blocking
request is considered „unreasonable“?
There isn't one. I'm not entirely sure what it would say if it existed
as it is hard to write such things down in concrete terms as it is by
definition a very subjective
On 11/07/11 09:20, Olaf Schmidt-Wischhöfer wrote:
If you have a better way of defining active contributor that is
workable then please tell us what it is.
I see no reason to limit the voting right to people who fit the definition of
active contributors.
The main reason is that otherwise it
Hi Kai,
One could have given voting rights to all people who have once reached
active contributor status and retain sufficient interest in the project
to keep their email address up to date and respond to the vote within 3
weeks.
I agree.
However, Frederick is correct, that this kind of
Hi tom,
The main reason is that otherwise it will effectively become impossible
to change the license because there will, over time, obviously be an
ever growing group of people who are no longer involved, interested
and/or contactable and once they become a majority the clause would in
On 11/07/11 09:35, Olaf Schmidt-Wischhöfer wrote:
Hi tom,
The main reason is that otherwise it will effectively become impossible
to change the license because there will, over time, obviously be an
ever growing group of people who are no longer involved, interested
and/or contactable and once
It is my understanding that Bing essentially said to OSM yes you can
upload to OSM.
We as a community can't verify this.
http://www.microsoft.com/maps/product/terms.html mentions nothing, all
we have is http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Bing_license.pdf
which we can't verify as authentic.
On 11 July 2011 19:55, Andrew Harvey andrew.harv...@gmail.com wrote:
It is my understanding that Bing essentially said to OSM yes you can
upload to OSM.
All we have is SteveC's word that this is what happened, to the best
of my knowledge Bing themselves near released anything definitive on
On 11 July 2011 10:55, Andrew Harvey andrew.harv...@gmail.com wrote:
It is my understanding that Bing essentially said to OSM yes you can
upload to OSM.
We as a community can't verify this.
http://www.microsoft.com/maps/product/terms.html mentions nothing, all
we have is
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Grant Slater
openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote:
The official Bing blog:
http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/maps/archive/2010/12/01/bing-maps-aerial-imagery-in-openstreetmap.aspx
published by Brian Hendricks - Bing Maps Product Manager
Oh, yes. That's
On 11 July 2011 11:30, Andrew Harvey andrew.harv...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Grant Slater
openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote:
The traced data is a new work and therefore untainted by the Bing
license. (NearMap doesn't see using aerial imagery this way.)
The license is
What is worrying me is that the LWG (=OSMF=COMMUNITY)
requires any contributor (us) to sign up using a CT,
where BING can get away with a simple blog page.
I *can* understand that, because it's not OSM that is addressed
in this blog, but the individuals (us) making contributions.
The permission
Am 11.07.2011 12:10, schrieb Grant Slater:
The traced data is a new work and therefore untainted by the Bing
license. (NearMap doesn't see using aerial imagery this way.)
The license is also a specific terms of use grant to OSM with the
condition the derived data is uploaded to OSM.
.
Hello,
[I am sorry if this is a FAQ, but this matter is urgent, and a cursory web
search has not provided sufficient information for me to answer these
questions]
I am in negotiation with a provider of aerial images (for Austria), who
wants to allow OpenStreetMappers to use these aerial images.
Sorry this was supposed to be copied to legal-talk, not the osm-fork list.
Apologies.
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 4:35 PM, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.bizwrote:
**
If it is UK Ordnance Survey data that is the issue, we now have
2011/7/11 Holger Schöner nume...@ancalime.de:
Hello,
[I am sorry if this is a FAQ, but this matter is urgent, and a cursory web
search has not provided sufficient information for me to answer these
questions]
I am in negotiation with a provider of aerial images (for Austria), who
wants to
- Original Message -
From: Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org
To: Licensing and other legal discussions.
legal-talk@openstreetmap.org
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 11:39 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbl and collective databases
David,
David Groom wrote:
This seems to be quite
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