Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-13 Thread 80n
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Francis Davey fjm...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 August 2010 19:42, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: What's the criteria in the EU? Do you know? own intellectual creation Article 3(1) of 96/9/EC: 1. In accordance with this Directive, databases which,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-13 Thread Francis Davey
On 6 August 2010 19:42, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: What's the criteria in the EU?  Do you know? own intellectual creation Article 3(1) of 96/9/EC: 1. In accordance with this Directive, databases which, by reason of the selection or arrangement of their contents, constitute the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-09 Thread Ed Avis
Anthony o...@... writes: There isn't a switch to ODbL.  Just a (not very practical IMHO) plan to do so at some point in the future, Did you see my addendum? I don't trust the OSMF to properly remove all of my work and derivatives of my work if/when they stop releasing those derivatives under

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
Anthony, Anthony wrote: I don't trust the OSMF to properly remove all of my work and derivatives of my work if/when they stop releasing those derivatives under CC-BY-SA. In December last year we had a guy also called Anthony on legal-talk who said: I live in the United States, where

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
that. :) cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/OSM-legal-talk-decision-removing-data-tp5370516p5388808.html Sent from the Legal Talk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-09 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Anthony, Anthony wrote: I don't trust the OSMF to properly remove all of my work and derivatives of my work if/when they stop releasing those derivatives under CC-BY-SA. In December last year we had a guy also called

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-09 Thread John Smith
On 9 August 2010 23:11, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Alternatively, you could perhaps contribute to CommonMap (commonmap.info) who are not a fork of OSM but acknowledge OSM as inspiration and are not

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-09 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Ed Avis wrote: Anthony writes: I'm currently working on a fork. I'm still hopeful that people will find some compromise, and it won't be needed. (Myself I would be quite happy if the project chose a dual

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
Heiko, Heiko Jacobs wrote: If you really consider your contributions to be in the public domain then good news for you: we do not require your agreeing to any contract. Did I miss something? On https://docs.google.com/View?id=dc3bxdhs_0cc77vdd9 I only read this three possibilities: [Agree

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-09 Thread Anthony
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: If you really consider your contributions to be in the public domain then good news for you: we do not require your agreeing to any contract. No, I'll simply take his data and upload it under an account which I sign up

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-09 Thread 80n
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:11 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Aug 9, 2010, at 7:14 AM, Anthony wrote: If that was you back then: Why should you request OSMF to properly remove all of your work when at the same time you have no problem with OSM using my contributions in any way

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-09 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Sun, 8 Aug 2010, Frederik Ramm wrote: Imports are bad enough in the effect they have on the surveying community. You are welcome to join a 48,000 km kayak trip to survey the Australian coastline. However If there is

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-09 Thread John Smith
2010/8/10 Dirk-Lüder Kreie osm-l...@deelkar.net: The Ideal would be PD/CC0, because that wouldn't limit us in so many ways. That's not true, it wouldn't limit what terms could be placed on end users of the data, it would increasingly limit what contributors can do.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-09 Thread Anthony
2010/8/9 Dirk-Lüder Kreie osm-l...@deelkar.net: Yes, easier said than done. But in my opinion a free and open geodatabase of the world is only free if it doesn't impose limits on it's uses. If you use OSM in a work, say that you used OSM, and don't sue anybody for copying that work. Is that

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-09 Thread Heiko Jacobs
Frederik Ramm schrieb: If you really consider your contributions to be in the public domain then good news for you: we do not require your agreeing to any contract. Did I miss something? On https://docs.google.com/View?id=dc3bxdhs_0cc77vdd9 I only read this three possibilities: [Agree button]

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-09 Thread Liz
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, SteveC wrote: Thus, it slows everything down. Oh and this and other threads going on right now are good examples. It's explicitly slowing down and complicating the process, which is probably the aim of several of the people here. I don't think it slows everything down,

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-09 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: I don't think it slows everything down, just some things. My explicit aim is not to slow down nor complicate the process of licence change, but to pull it to a halt. It's good that you've aired that explicitly because it explains

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-09 Thread John Smith
On 10 August 2010 11:38, Serge Wroclawski emac...@gmail.com wrote: At this point, the ODbL ship has sailed. There's no putting the toothpaste back in the tube, and there's no crying over spilled milk. There's not even any more time for metaphors, that fat lady has sung. If things are so fixed

Re: [OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-09 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Serge Wroclawski wrote: All of these are valid options. They also all have the attribute of being active- that is focusing on what's to come, instead of focusing on trying to change the past. Thankyou Serge for your opinions. I don't think any ship has sailed, or any

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-08 Thread Russ Nelson
SteveC writes: As in, why is the PD camp so loud here? First and foremost, because we believe that all the licensing kerfluffle will frighten people away from using the map. Because we all want a map that will actually be USED by the most people possible. Because we aren't afraid of forks

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-08 Thread John Smith
On 8 August 2010 17:03, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: copyright on it and claim it as their own. Because the ODbL and CC-By-SA impose a cost on the community. I mean, if we're going to get rid of contributors on purpose, then at least let's get rid of the people who think a reciprocal

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 08/08/2010 09:25 AM, John Smith wrote: On 8 August 2010 17:03, Russ Nelsonnel...@crynwr.com wrote: copyright on it and claim it as their own. Because the ODbL and CC-By-SA impose a cost on the community. I mean, if we're going to get rid of contributors on purpose, then at least

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
Liz, On 08/08/2010 10:21 AM, Liz wrote: You are welcome to join a 48,000 km kayak trip to survey the Australian coastline. I'll completely replace it with the PD PGS shoreline if anyone ever again says we cannot do X because of the imported Australian shoreline. Honestly, I will. Bye

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-08 Thread John Smith
On 8 August 2010 18:30, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: I'll completely replace it with the PD PGS shoreline if anyone ever again says we cannot do X because of the imported Australian shoreline. I'm starting to think 80n was right, if you were really serious about wanting a PD fork

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-08 Thread Liz
On Sun, 8 Aug 2010, Frederik Ramm wrote: I'll completely replace it with the PD PGS shoreline if anyone ever again says we cannot do X because of the imported Australian shoreline. The PGS shoreline has been removed because it isn't as accurate as the imported one.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-08 Thread John Smith
On 8 August 2010 18:43, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Sun, 8 Aug 2010, Frederik Ramm wrote: I'll completely replace it with the PD PGS shoreline if anyone ever again says we cannot do X because of the imported Australian shoreline. The PGS shoreline has been removed because it isn't as

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-07 Thread Rob Myers
On 08/07/2010 03:35 PM, Anthony wrote: I don't really see how there's an argument. If photoshop offers a plugin that lets you draw a line with a certain thickness, a certain color, and a label on it, and you use that photoshop plugin to make a map, you've got a copyrighted work, and that

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Simon Ward wrote: Not arguing against people having a choice, but I do think that, whether or not the license change happens, people should be able to get all of the old data, including history, under the terms of the existing CC-by-sa license. It has been officially said by the LWG (and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-06 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
80n 80n...@... writes: There are many things that meet the almost trivial threshold that legally constitutes creativity. Road classification, land use, abstraction, generalization, selectivity, arbitrary tagging, arrangement, smoothness, routes, desire paths, boundary approximation, building

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-06 Thread 80n
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Jukka Rahkonen jukka.rahko...@latuviitta.fi wrote: 80n 80n...@... writes: There are many things that meet the almost trivial threshold that legally constitutes creativity. Road classification, land use, abstraction, generalization, selectivity, arbitrary

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-06 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
80n 80n...@... writes: So, without your best endeavours, would you agree that these contributors would naturally introduce some creativeness?  If you have to expend effort to remove creativity then you have made a pretty good case for the existence of creativity.  Thank you for your testimony.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-06 Thread Liz
On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, 80n quoted: I have been leading a team of digitizers tracing features from aerial images. I was doing everything I could to minimize the creative or artistic part of their work. Actually, a quite heavy system of internal and external quality control was there just

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
Heiko, Heiko Jacobs wrote: Everyone discusses consequenzes of the decision of removing data from non-accepting people, but it seems, that they all have forgotten, WHY they have decided to remove data? Because. as I explained to you yesterday, CC-BY-SA does not allow redistribution of data

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Heiko Jacobs
Frederik Ramm schrieb: Heiko, Heiko Jacobs wrote: Everyone discusses consequenzes of the decision of removing data from non-accepting people, but it seems, that they all have forgotten, WHY they have decided to remove data? Because. as I explained to you yesterday, CC-BY-SA does not allow

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread John Smith
On 5 August 2010 18:04, Heiko Jacobs heiko.jac...@gmx.de wrote: I don't want youre private guesses. I want to have official facts. Unless someone sues another in court over this issues, you are only going to get guesses. What's the problem to do this for the reasons of data loss, too? The

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Rob Myers
On 08/05/2010 12:11 PM, John Smith wrote: On 5 August 2010 21:02, Grant Slateropenstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: On 4 August 2010 22:25, Lized...@billiau.net wrote: As you realise, in my jurisdiction, CC-by-SA is a better licence than ODbL, as it has been well checked and has government use.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread SteveC
On Aug 4, 2010, at 10:30 PM, John Smith wrote: On 5 August 2010 12:59, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: This is simple straw man crap. 80n invents a deadline, proceeds to piss off everyone, take all our time and thus slow things down, then declare we're not meeting the deadline.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread SteveC
On Aug 5, 2010, at 6:43 AM, SteveC wrote: On Aug 4, 2010, at 10:30 PM, John Smith wrote: On 5 August 2010 12:59, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: This is simple straw man crap. 80n invents a deadline, proceeds to piss off everyone, take all our time and thus slow things down, then

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
and creep. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/OSM-legal-talk-decision-removing-data-tp5370516p5376400.html Sent from the Legal Talk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread John Smith
On 5 August 2010 22:33, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: The conversation we had recently on this list indicated that three years from after the next Australian election would be the minimum timescale. That's assuming they actually have a desire or reason to change... Otherwise it could take

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Two recent, very high-profile judgements in Australia both repudiate the notion that copyright can protect collections of unoriginal facts. These are IceTV vs Nine Network (last year) and Telstra vs Phone Directories

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread John Smith
On 5 August 2010 23:12, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: I am, however, sure that any legal case involving infringement of OSM data in Australia would be judged following IceTV vs Nine Network and Telstra vs Phone Directories, rather than following any licence which the legislature

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread John Smith
On 5 August 2010 22:43, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: I agree, FUD isn't fun. But it's you and a couple of others having a significant time sink effect on the people trying to move it forward. I'm not the one that came up with ambiguous wording for the new CTs that makes a lot of the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: On 08/05/2010 02:49 PM, Anthony wrote: I don't see that's different from any other drawing, in digital form. It depends how creative/original it is. No it doesn't. It depends whether or not it crosses the threshold of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Rob Myers
On 08/05/2010 02:37 PM, Anthony wrote: The idea that copyright does not cover maps is very strange when you consider that. Nobody has said that it doesn't. The point is that Geodata is not a visual work of cartography. - Rob. ___ legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Rob Myers
On 08/05/2010 03:07 PM, Anthony wrote: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Rob Myersr...@robmyers.org wrote: On 08/05/2010 02:49 PM, Anthony wrote: I don't see that's different from any other drawing, in digital form. It depends how creative/original it is. No it doesn't. It depends whether

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Rob Myers
On 08/05/2010 03:20 PM, Anthony wrote: Still waiting for that definition of geodata. It's a contraction of geographical data. Just because the map is in digitized vector format doesn't mean it's not a digital version of a visual work of cartography. The fixed form is different. The fact

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: On 08/05/2010 03:20 PM, Anthony wrote: Still waiting for that definition of geodata. It's a contraction of geographical data. I didn't ask for an expanded form, I asked for a definition. If you'd like to be tricky, you can

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:08 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 August 2010 01:02, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: Call it mapping for the renderer if you want.  Call it a violation of the rules of OSM.  But that's a copyrightable work. So would any use of the smoothness

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Rob Myers
On 08/05/2010 03:50 PM, Anthony wrote: I say such a definition is not possible to create. Then why are you asking for one? It is trivial to define geodata as geographical data in database form. A rendered map isn't geodata because it isn't in database form. The fixed form is different.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Rob Myers
On 08/05/2010 04:17 PM, Anthony wrote: Bottom line is it doesn't matter. Even if I broke the rules of OSM while creating it, I'm still entitled to the copyright on my work. If you are entitled to copyright. The point of the breaking the rules is that the creativity/originality that breaking

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: On 08/05/2010 05:09 PM, Anthony wrote: And OSM is more than just geographical data.  A way isn't geographical data. A way is geographical data. Or possibly geographical metadata. ;-) I don't think so. Ways contain

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread 80n
The test for copyrightability is some amount of creativity. Case law suggests that this can be very minimal. Rather than looking for what is factual and thus not copyrightable, let's look for what is. There are many things that meet the almost trivial threshold that legally constitutes

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Jamie Smith
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: On 08/05/2010 08:20 PM, Anthony wrote: I don't think so.  Ways contain geographical data, but they're more than *just* geographical data. I don't know what else

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Jamie Smith jamiekrsm...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: On 08/05/2010 08:20 PM, Anthony wrote: I don't think so.  Ways contain geographical data,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Jamie Smith
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: They're vector graphics. They are vectors, but they sure aren't graphics.  Not until they get rendered. Is an svg file not graphics until it gets rendered? Rendered != rasterised. The vector data has no natural visual form.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Lars Aronsson
They're vector graphics. They are vectors, but they sure aren't graphics. Not until they get rendered. Is an svg file not graphics until it gets rendered? Rendered != rasterised. The vector data has no natural visual form. This is supposed to be a mailing list for legal discussions

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread SteveC
+1 On Aug 5, 2010, at 3:43 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote: They're vector graphics. They are vectors, but they sure aren't graphics. Not until they get rendered. Is an svg file not graphics until it gets rendered? Rendered != rasterised. The vector data has no natural visual form. This is

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Simon Ward
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 07:42:35PM -0400, Richard Weait wrote: The presumption is that contributors who joined under ccbysa only, have the right to choose whether to proceed under ODbL or not. Do you suggest that they should not have a choice? Not arguing against people having a choice, but I

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread John Smith
On 6 August 2010 06:48, Jamie Smith jamiekrsm...@gmail.com wrote: They are vectors, but they sure aren't graphics. Not until they get rendered. So a SVG file isn't copyrightable, until it is rendered? ___ legal-talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Rob Myers
On 08/05/2010 09:25 AM, John Smith wrote: You essentially have 2 camps here, the pragmatists who think anything but minor data loss is unacceptable, and you have the idealists who think even if we loose a most of data people will just put new freer data back in and we'll be able to then license

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Emilie Laffray
On 5 August 2010 14:19, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: What makes you think that contractual element will offer any protection in Australia? Has an Australian court case upheld the enforcement of contractual restriction on people who didn't even know the contract existed? And who told you

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:23 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 August 2010 22:44, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Oh and BTW this exact dragging on is why I suggested we bound the problem by signing up new users - so the problem doesn't grow every day with more and more

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Emilie Laffray emilie.laff...@gmail.com wrote: trollHum, I think that quite a few things on Wikipedia can be considered creative in the first place allowing for copyrights to kick in. /troll Hum, in Wikipedia, it is not the facts that is protected but the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/OSM-legal-talk-decision-removing-data-tp5370516p5376495.html Sent from the Legal Talk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Emilie Laffray emilie.laff...@gmail.com wrote: trollHum, I think that quite a few things on Wikipedia can be considered creative in the first place allowing for copyrights to kick in. /troll Hum, in

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread SteveC
On Aug 5, 2010, at 7:13 AM, Anthony wrote: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:25 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: You essentially have 2 camps here, the pragmatists who think anything but minor data loss is unacceptable, and you have the idealists who think even if we loose a most of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread SteveC
On Aug 5, 2010, at 7:22 AM, John Smith wrote: On 5 August 2010 22:43, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: I agree, FUD isn't fun. But it's you and a couple of others having a significant time sink effect on the people trying to move it forward. I'm not the one that came up with ambiguous

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Anthony wrote: And who told you that OSM is a collection of unoriginal facts? I did, last time I did some mapping. I faithfully recorded where the paths, gates and stiles were, rather than pulling some fictitious

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread SteveC
On Aug 5, 2010, at 7:23 AM, John Smith wrote: On 5 August 2010 22:44, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: Oh and BTW this exact dragging on is why I suggested we bound the problem by signing up new users - so the problem doesn't grow every day with more and more people. But that has it's

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: I've pretty much stopped uploading my maps to OSM precisely because of this switch to ODbL. Basically, I don't trust you to delete all of my work and all of the derivatives based on it, when you switch.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread SteveC
On Aug 5, 2010, at 7:36 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Anthony wrote: And who told you that OSM is a collection of unoriginal facts? I did, last time I did some mapping. I faithfully recorded where the paths, gates and stiles were, rather than pulling some fictitious locations out of my

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Anthony wrote: Which is to say, sure, it *contains* a collection of unoriginal facts, but it expresses those facts in a unique way. Hey Google, you can have our unoriginal facts but please don't copy the Osmarender map style, or the way we write our XML. Thanks. Bye Frederik

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Tom Hughes
On 05/08/10 14:37, Anthony wrote: By the way, if you know the history of copyright, you'll know that maps were one of the first two types of works which were protected. When copyright was invented, it protected books and maps. The idea that copyright does not cover maps is very strange when

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread John Smith
On 5 August 2010 23:42, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hey Google, you can have our unoriginal facts but please don't copy the Osmarender map style, or the way we write our XML. Thanks. Mapping isn't about recording pure fact, otherwise we'd simply convert GPX data to map data

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Anthony
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 05/08/10 14:37, Anthony wrote: By the way, if you know the history of copyright, you'll know that maps were one of the first two types of works which were protected. When copyright was invented, it protected books and maps.  

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Jamie Smith
On 05/08/10 14:50, Anthony chuntered on: Still waiting for that definition of geodata. It's a contraction of geographical data. I didn't ask for an expanded form, I asked for a definition. You are aware that there are aspects to life that aren't connected to copyright?  Like the definition

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Rob Myers
On 08/05/2010 08:20 PM, Anthony wrote: I don't think so. Ways contain geographical data, but they're more than *just* geographical data. I don't know what else they are. The fact that the form is fixed on the hard drive is less important than that it's fixed as a database or as an image

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-05 Thread Francis Davey
On 5 August 2010 22:26, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: Francis Indeed.  Let's start getting specific.  The threshold in the US is very low - which incidentally is where this you can't copyright facts stuff originated. I may have missed that part of the discussion. If you mean that the US is

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-04 Thread Heiko Jacobs
Richard Weait schrieb: On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Heiko Jacobs heiko.jac...@gmx.de wrote: Hello I searched without success in the Wiki who official decided, when and *WHY* they decided, that data of contributors, who not (can) accept the ODbl, has to be removed. In

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-04 Thread Heiko Jacobs
Hello First thanks a lot for some unknown (and known) interesting pages. Frederik Ramm schrieb: That again referenced the implementation plan at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Database_License/Implementation_Plan Which, under the What do we do with people who have said no or not

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-04 Thread 80n
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: 3. Each element is examined and only those with an unbroken history chain from version 1 to the most recent ODbL'ed version are marked as OK. Does anyone know whether the code exists to do this yet? How are way

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-04 Thread Heiko Jacobs
Frederik Ramm schrieb: Heiko Jacobs wrote: I'm still searching the former decision (of LWG or any other) that the removal of data is mandatory and WHY it is on which legal base of copyright, CC or anything other. I don't think that there is any decision necessary. CC-BY-SA says data must

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-04 Thread Tom Hughes
On 04/08/10 12:06, Frederik Ramm wrote: I also still searching archived versions of old (pre double licensing) versions of contribution terms. You answered it in talk-de citing a small sentence but with a preceding I guess ... An archive without guess would be fine ;-) You should be able to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, 80n wrote: Does anyone know whether the code exists to do this yet? I doubt it. How are way splits handled (only one half of the way will have a full history)? I think they can be auto-detected (i.e. where in one changeset, one way suddenly loses some nodes and another springs up

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-04 Thread John Smith
On 4 August 2010 21:48, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Any such mechanism, in my eyes, need not be 100% perfect; it is sufficient to make a honest attempt at doing the right thing, and if a few things slip through, then fix them in case of complaints. Which goes against the usual OSM

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-04 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:20 PM, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.orgwrote: 3. Each element is examined and only those with an unbroken history chain from version 1 to the most recent ODbL'ed version are marked as OK. Does anyone

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, John Smith wrote: Any such mechanism, in my eyes, need not be 100% perfect; it is sufficient to make a honest attempt at doing the right thing, and if a few things slip through, then fix them in case of complaints. Which goes against the usual OSM policy of rejecting it if unsure, rather

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-04 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, John Smith wrote: Any such mechanism, in my eyes, need not be 100% perfect; it is sufficient to make a honest attempt at doing the right thing, and if a few things slip through, then fix them in case of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-04 Thread 80n
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, 80n wrote: Does anyone know whether the code exists to do this yet? I doubt it. How are way splits handled (only one half of the way will have a full history)? I think they can be auto-detected (i.e.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-04 Thread Grant Slater
On 4 August 2010 14:00, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: The whole relicensing effort would be a bit of a non-starter if this deletion process cannot be done. During late 2008 and early 2009 a user inappropriately imported (and amend existing OSM data) into OSM for Lithuania from what was strongly

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-04 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 9:00 AM, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: If there is anything under development it would be good if we could see it. It is unlikely to be a trivial piece of code and I'd be very surprised if it can be developed by September 1st if it hasn't already been started. You've

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-04 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:32 PM, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: [ ... ] September 1st represents a reasonable timeframe, based on the currently published implementation plan Dear 80n, Absolutely not. From the implementation plan. Phase 2 scheduled as 5 or 10 weeks. Phase 3 as 8 weeks. Plus

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-04 Thread Liz
On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Richard Weait wrote: How do you find your fictional September first deadline reasonable? I consider it a political deadline. Since 80n has mooted this deadline some time ago, and only now you consider it, of course you think it is quite short.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-04 Thread 80n
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:32 PM, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: [ ... ] September 1st represents a reasonable timeframe, based on the currently published implementation plan Dear 80n, Absolutely not. From the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Liz, Since 80n has mooted this deadline some time ago, and only now you consider it, of course you think it is quite short. 80n first mentioned this deadline on 14th July, i.e. at the time that was six weeks. It was unclear to me what exactly the deadline was about; he wrote if there

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-04 Thread Heiko Jacobs
May I set a reminder to a mail of mine? Everyone discusses consequenzes of the decision of removing data from non-accepting people, but it seems, that they all have forgotten, WHY they have decided to remove data? For such an inportant thing like removing data from OSM project while licence

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-04 Thread SteveC
This is simple straw man crap. 80n invents a deadline, proceeds to piss off everyone, take all our time and thus slow things down, then declare we're not meeting the deadline. Steve stevecoast.com On Aug 4, 2010, at 3:35 PM, 80n wrote: On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Frederik Ramm

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-04 Thread John Smith
On 5 August 2010 12:59, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: This is simple straw man crap. 80n invents a deadline, proceeds to piss off everyone, take all our time and thus slow things down, then declare we're not meeting the deadline. Regardless I've communicated with some older contributors

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

2010-08-04 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Heiko Jacobs wrote: I searched without success in the Wiki who official decided, when and *WHY* they decided, that data of contributors, who not (can) accept the ODbl, has to be removed. The formal decision for OSMF to go on with the ODbL relicensing process was the result of a vote

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