Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [Talk-ca] Nouvelle licence de données ouvertes au Québec

2014-02-26 Thread Luis Villa
/Open Data Commons could simplify the problem by declaring that CC 4.0 is a compatible license under ODBL 4.4(a)(iii), but there would still be some complexities to work through. Luis -- Luis Villa Deputy General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation 415.839.6885 ext. 6810 NOTICE: *This message may

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Review of IndianaMap as potential datasource

2014-04-18 Thread Luis Villa
Wikipedia(tm) articles from deletion http://SpeedyDeletion.wikia.com Mozilla Rep https://reps.mozilla.org/u/h4ck3rm1k3 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk -- Luis Villa

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Review of IndianaMap as potential datasource

2014-04-21 Thread Luis Villa
://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk -- Luis Villa Deputy General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation 415.839.6885 ext. 6810 NOTICE: *This message may be confidential or legally privileged. If you have received it by accident, please delete it and let us know about the mistake. As an attorney

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Attribution

2014-04-29 Thread Luis Villa
@openstreetmap.orghttps://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk -- Luis Villa Deputy General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation

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

2014-04-29 Thread Luis Villa
implying that many important uses are not going to be quantitatively substantial?), but I'm really not sure. I would clarify or remove that. Hope this is helpful- Luis -- Luis Villa Deputy General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation 415.839.6885 ext. 6810 NOTICE: *This message may be confidential

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] The edges of share-alike on data Re: Attribution

2014-05-07 Thread Luis Villa
contributions) and risking some loopholes, since the people interested in the loopholes are likely to not contribute back anyway. But that is a judgment call and there is no 100% right answer. Luis -- Luis Villa Deputy General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation 415.839.6885 ext. 6810 NOTICE: *This message may

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Community Guidelines (was Re: Attribution)

2014-05-07 Thread Luis Villa
/2013-June/007553.htmland https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2013-June/007554.html Which isn't to say that people shouldn't describe detailed use cases :) Just that a lot of progress could be made by walking through more basic ones as well. Luis -- Luis Villa Deputy General

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Community Guidelines (was Re: Attribution)

2014-05-12 Thread Luis Villa
detailed use cases :) Just that a lot of progress could be made by walking through more basic ones as well. Luis -- Luis Villa Deputy General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation 415.839.6885 ext. 6810 NOTICE: /This message may be confidential or legally privileged. If you have

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using description from wikipedia text (Tom Gregorovic)

2014-10-19 Thread Luis Villa
WMF's position with a grain of salt when using Wikipedia's content. But I'd be surprised if this was a problem, especially in a situation like this one where it is particularly clear that what is being used is the underlying fact rather than a copy of a specific expression of the fact. Luis -- Luis

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Working Group news

2014-11-18 Thread Luis Villa
, others- Is there a formal description somewhere of the roles/responsibilities of the WG? That would help me evaluate to what extent (if at all) I can participate in WG activities. Thanks- Luis -- Luis Villa Deputy General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation 415.839.6885 ext. 6810 *This message may

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Working Group news

2014-11-18 Thread Luis Villa
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Paul Norman penor...@mac.com wrote: On 11/18/2014 10:11 AM, Luis Villa wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: I would also like to highlight that we also now welcome associate members who can help us

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Addresses from Land Registry Price Paid Data

2014-12-01 Thread Luis Villa
in traditional/proprietary licenses as well, but in those cases, you may be able to negotiate better terms depending on the situation.) OSMF could, of course, negotiate further assurances outside of OGL with specific data providers if there was a particular concern. Luis -- Luis Villa Deputy General Counsel

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

2015-09-22 Thread Luis Villa
On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 1:58 PM Tom Lee wrote: > Martin, > > > Is there a problem with the current license? Is it not clear from a legal > point of view, how it should be interpreted? > > > Correct--it's currently unclear how the license applies to many important > use cases.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Any thoughts on the Friday WAPO article referencing OSM RE: India Mapping?

2016-05-10 Thread Luis Villa
It's not just the disputed border; the bill as proposed would make it illegal to possess "geospatial data", i.e., copies of OSM, without a license: http://geoawesomeness.com/problems-with-the-geospatial-information-regulation-bill/ Luis On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 3:35 PM Mr. Stace D Maples

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licence compatibility: Open Data Licence for The Regional Municipality of Peel (Version 1.0)

2016-09-09 Thread Luis Villa
Can you elaborate on the second point, Simon? Are you referring to the "third party rights the Information Provider is not authorised to license" language? If so, I'm afraid they've merely made explicit what is implicit in all licenses - if there is third party material in a work that the open

[OSM-legal-talk] Disclaimers of title in open licenses/OGL [was Re: Licence compatibility: Open Data Licence for The Regional Municipality of Peel (Version 1.0)]

2016-09-09 Thread Luis Villa
ker+...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9 September 2016 at 18:19, Luis Villa <l...@lu.is> wrote: > > Can you elaborate on the second point, Simon? Are you referring to the > > "third party rights the Information Provider is not authorised to > license" > > language? If so