On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 1:48 AM, John Smith wrote:
> What I'm curious about is if a document is written in XML can be
> considered copyrighted, why can't geo-data be copyrighted as well
> since it's not a database of facts, but a document of information
> created, in this case, by crowd sourcing.
>
2009/12/6 Anthony :
> What, you say, you already had that right anyway? Well, here in the US, I
> already have the right to copy and redistribute the OSM database.
Depends what laws the laws in your jurisdictions are derived from.
Sometimes it's anything goes unless you aren't allowed to do it.
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Matt Amos wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Anthony wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Matt Amos wrote:
> >> therefore, if someone downloads if from
> >> them, the license notice is intact and they implicitly agree to it as
> >> soon as they are s
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Anthony wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Matt Amos wrote:
>> therefore, if someone downloads if from
>> them, the license notice is intact and they implicitly agree to it as
>> soon as they are simultaneously aware of it and performing acts
>> governed by
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Matt Amos wrote:
> the agreement doesn't kick in from the reading of the license, it
> kicks in when you do something that only the license would permit you
> to do.
The whole basis of the switch away from CC-BY-SA is that there is doubt as
to whether or not the
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 4:23 AM, Anthony wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Matt Amos wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Anthony wrote:
>> > Now, when I
>> > download the OSM database from that mirror site, what binds me to the
>> > ODbL?
>> > Absolutely nothing.
>>
>> your email
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Matt Amos wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Anthony wrote:
> > Now, when I
> > download the OSM database from that mirror site, what binds me to the
> ODbL?
> > Absolutely nothing.
>
> your email here proves you are aware of the terms of such a download. :
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Anthony wrote:
> Now, when I
> download the OSM database from that mirror site, what binds me to the ODbL?
> Absolutely nothing.
your email here proves you are aware of the terms of such a download. :-)
for people who haven't so publicly demonstrated their awarene
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> I don't think you have at all answered the points in that, and therefore
> I stand by the viewpoint that in Australia, ODbL has the best chance of
> any open, non-clickwrap licence of protecting OSM's data.
>
Which is to say, none at all?
On 05/12/2009 21:31, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
> The proposed licence is not a benefit to Australians in my view.
You have generously qualified this with "in my view" and I should point
out that I disagree with all the force I can muster.
I spent about two hours this morning writing a pretty detaile
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