Re: [OSM-talk] Progressing OSM to a new data Licence regime

2008-02-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ian Haylock wrote: > Surely if a person releases something under PD, he/she is giving up > all rights to that information, be it software, data, etc. > So what's to stop OSM doing what they want with the data. > > For instance if the whole of the OSM database was public domain. A > private c

Re: [OSM-talk] Progressing OSM to a new data Licence regime

2008-02-05 Thread Ian Haylock
Hi, Bruce Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What happens if a non-PD editor edits PD data? Does it become non-PD or does it stay PD? What if the editor doesn't want their edits to be PD? This is why we need one licence for everyone. I'm happy for my GPXs to be PD, but not my edits. Surely if a

Re: [OSM-talk] Progressing OSM to a new data Licence regime

2008-02-04 Thread Bruce Cowan
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 12:31 +, Tom Evans wrote: > > Stage 3 - Email all OSM users who have contributed > > > data with the option of re-licensing their data > > > > If we're going to do this anyway, can we not allow users to mark their > preference as public domain to

Re: [OSM-talk] Progressing OSM to a new data Licence regime

2008-02-04 Thread Stefan Baebler
I guess this is why it's called "the hard bit". Also ... The GPX traces were (presumably) uploaded under CCBYSA. Since traces metadata was lost there is now roughly 25% of the trackpoints with unknown contributors - no one to grant relicensing and unknow "public" attribute. Should these traces als

Re: [OSM-talk] Progressing OSM to a new data Licence regime

2008-02-04 Thread David Earl
On 04/02/2008 10:41, SteveC wrote: > • Stage 4 - Remove all data from those who do not respond or respond > negatively (the hard bit) Steve, how do we avoid the situation where e.g. someone who disagrees the new license has run a bot over all of Cambridge to tweak things (as has indeed h

Re: [OSM-talk] Progressing OSM to a new data Licence regime

2008-02-04 Thread Tom Evans
> Stage 3 - Email all OSM users who have contributed > data with the option of re-licensing their data If we're going to do this anyway, can we not allow users to mark their preference as public domain too? It seems a significant number of OSM participants may be perfect