Re: [OSM-talk] Fixing wiki* -> brand:wiki*

2017-09-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andy Mabbett wrote: > in different parts of the world IIRC OSM stores spatial information. I might be wrong. Richard -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/General-Discussion-f5171242.html ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #382 2017-11-07-2017-11-13

2017-11-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
joost schooupe wrote: > It doesn't help that it was worded as "people are > saying", but then the last part of the sentence seems more > like their own opinion. Worth noting that WeeklyOSM is produced alongside and seeded by the German Wochennotiz. I don't sprechen sufficient Deutsch to be

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

2017-11-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > Look at Wikipedia, or any large social organization for that matter. At > the village/startup level, you have very few codified rules, but as the > group grows to a city/corporation size, it becomes more and more > bureaucratic. We may not like it, but clear rules help

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #382 2017-11-07-2017-11-13

2017-11-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Sheesh, you lot are hilarious sometimes. Publications have an inviolable duty to be impartial? That’s great. Very interesting attitude in 2017. Tell me when you’ve found one such. WeeklyOSM writes what WeeklyOSM wants. If you don’t like it, contribute or start your own. It saddens me that the

Re: [OSM-talk] About OSM social implications and what can/should be displayed on the map (or not)

2018-06-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Carlos Cámara wrote: > Willing to read your points of view on that matter. There is a whole lot I could say on this (writing "Eurocentric" in a discussion about casinos seems really weird, and I'm not sure Native Americans would thank you for it) but ultimately it's a little academic at the

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #379 2017-10-17-2017-10-23

2017-10-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
I agree absolutely. Time to ban verdy_p for continually disruptive behaviour and an unwillingness to work with the community. Richard -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/General-Discussion-f5171242.html ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] Is it technically and legally possible to add the Open Location Code to the OSM search?

2018-08-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Blake Girardot wrote: > Also: No one is getting paid for anything related to this at this > point. I personally would like to see Google donate to the OSMF > and let the OSMF grant it out to help OSM core and eco system > tools implement OLC native in code as it should be. That's done. Tom has

Re: [OSM-talk] proposed mechanical edit - moving FIXME=* to fixme=*

2018-07-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Florian Lohoff wrote: > Have you ever dealt with OSM data from a software development > standpoint? > > There is no such thing as "database quality". Its a big spaghetti > mess and data consumers take whats documented and ignore > misspellings. Users have to fix it with discipline noticing the

Re: [OSM-talk] Scientific paper on "Information Seeding"

2018-07-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Greg Morgan wrote: > Let's compare Germany[8], the state of Montana[9] and the > United States[10]. We see that the size of Montana matches the > size of Germany. Yet, we see the population density is roughly > 82 million people in Germany to 1 million people in Montana. I see a lot of varied

Re: [OSM-talk] Name:* tags in the local language

2018-04-24 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Paul Norman wrote: > If there's agreement that there is a problem here, I could look > at preparing a mechanical edit or MapRoulette challenge to add > name:* tags, e.g. adding name:en to objects in the US with > other name:* tags, and adding name:zh in China. As an > estimate, this would be

Re: [OSM-talk] Ground truth for non-physical objects

2018-12-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tomas Straupis wrote: > Ad absurdum argument: can you invent your own street name or even > placename and expect post, police, ambulance, firefighters, taxi to > arrive (on time or at all)? Sure, in the UK, you could do that and I know people who have done so. If you invent a street name here

[OSM-talk] cycle.travel's OSM bike routing now covers Scandinavia and Eastern Europe

2018-11-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, I've just added coverage of Scandinavia and Eastern Europe to the OSM-powered bike routing at https://cycle.travel/map . New countries are Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, (North) Macedonia,

Re: [OSM-talk] iD influencing tagging

2019-04-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > Now while everybody is free to use any tag she likes, I would not > expect the OpenStreetMap-Foundation standard editor to > introduce new tags through presets. It's been happening since Potlatch 1 came online in 2007, so you should have had a few years to get used

[OSM-talk] We need to have a conversation about attribution

2019-02-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hi all, In recent years some OSM data consumers and "OSM as a service" providers have begun to put the credit to OpenStreetMap behind an click-through 'About', 'Credits', 'Legal' or '(i)' link. Examples: https://docs.mapbox.com/help/img/android/android-first-steps-intro.png

Re: [OSM-talk] We need to have a conversation about attribution

2019-03-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Mikel Maron wrote: > We may not like that reality, but that's the underlying legal situation. > We can certainly recommend a better way. And that recommendation > can only be formulated through the OSMF; a mailing list discussion > will not lead to a legal decision, though it's an interesting

Re: [OSM-talk] weeklyOSM #450 2019-02-26-2019-03-04

2019-03-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > How did you come to this conclusion? I counted 3 people not so > interested in attribution or OK with current state of things and > 16 agreeing either explicitly or implicitly with Richard's assessment > that there is a problem. I think WeeklyOSM were being very

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Andrew Hain wrote: > Have a new team of developers code from the codebase of iD. > Write a new online editor from scratch. > Abandon online editing and tell everyone to use an offline editor. Please stop trolling. Richard -- Sent from:

Re: [OSM-talk] Remove validation rule asking to add highway=footway to railway/public_transport=platform

2019-05-27 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Wiklund Johan wrote: > Adding footway to the platform serves no purpose but to please poorly > built > routing engines. Are there actually any such engines, or is this a post-facto justification? OSRM has routed over platforms since 8 September 2013. Valhalla does - it's multimodal and you

Re: [OSM-talk] Attribution guideline status update

2019-08-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Kathleen Lu wrote: > "reasonably calculated" means "reasonable." What does reasonable mean? > Well a court would look at what other people in the industry do. Do others > in the industry list attribution, especially to multiple data sources, > after > a click (or many clicks)? Yes, all the

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging Governance

2019-09-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Roland Olbricht wrote: > > Changing to a github-like system of version management > I thought of Git, not Github. Again, there's no suggestion of "changing to"; it would be additional. As Christoph says, the challenge would be "finding, motivating, selecting and retaining qualified people to

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging Governance

2019-09-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Roland Olbricht wrote: > Imperfect Flow of Information > > Although many parts of the OpenStreetMap project are well > translated, the tagging documentation has substantial deficiencies. Yep. Documentation is the biggest problem with tagging. I don't actually think it's the wiki per se that's

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging Governance

2019-09-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Joseph Eisenberg wrote: > Changing to a github-like system of version management would > require some people to serve as "maintainers" or "moderators" > of the new, curated list of Map Features / Tags, wouldn't it? While > this could be an improvement in the quality and consistency of > how

Re: [OSM-talk] Attribution guideline status update

2019-08-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
SimonPoole wrote: > the few things that are not nailed down belong to those that we > would appreciate feedback on. This is really good, and very much in accordance with both the text of the ODbL and the long-standing precedents set by the osm.org/copyright page. Thank you. Two small wording

Re: [OSM-talk] Attribution guideline status update

2019-08-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Christoph Hormann wrote: > It does not in any way address the problem of second rate attribution > (i.e. someone else - usually the service provider of the map service > or the media outlet publishing the map) is being attributed more > prominently than OSM. That is not something that the ODbL

Re: [OSM-talk] Attribution guideline status update

2019-08-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: If you look at Apple Maps, and for example zoomed into some place in Denmark, there is an i-button which brings you to an overlay which has a TomTom logo and a link „and others“ while in Denmark the data is from OpenStreetMap. IMHO this second rate attribution

Re: [OSM-talk] Attribution guideline status update

2019-08-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Christoph Hormann wrote: > Just for understanding what second rate attribution is: For example > the map on the bottom right of: > https://www.zeit.de/politik/2019-07/strasse-von-hormus-bundesregierung-marinemission-usa-iran > printing a prominent "Zeit Online" below the map (self attribution)

[OSM-talk] EuroVelo routes are out of date

2019-10-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
EuroVelo routes are not in a great state in OSM. Many of them appear to have been armchaired years ago when routes were "in development", and not updated since to reflect the correct route. A handful of examples: [France] https://cycling.waymarkedtrails.org/#?map=12!49.2876!2.655 EV3 should

Re: [OSM-talk] Digital environmentalism

2020-02-26 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Kathleen Lu wrote: > I would not say this is true. Google maps has routing for walking, > cycling, and public transit, and their public transit information is > probably more complete than OSM's. It is, but on the other hand Google's walking and cycling routing is _much_ worse. Richard --

Re: [OSM-talk] Web editors and lane rendering

2020-02-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Paul Johnson wrote: > Could we get some lane editing/rendering in these editors > to cut down on this kind of unintentionally erratic mapping? Sure, you're welcome to open a friendly issue at https://github.com/systemed/potlatch2/issues listing the base case for what you think is required. > >

Re: [OSM-talk] For the sake of peace | Re: Cease use of OpenStreetMap/Antifa logo

2020-02-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Rory McCann wrote: > The existence of an OSM cycling logo doesn't mean all > OSMers have to be cycling activists! Wait, what? cheers Richard -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/General-Discussion-f5171242.html ___ talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] remove the suggestion to credit "contributors"

2020-04-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > Since cc-by-sa 2.0 times, the suggestion to credit OSM was "© > OpenStreetMap contributors", but from the current legal situation > (all necessary rights granted to the OSMF) it wouldn't be > necessary to credit the contributors. When I wrote the /copyright page all

Re: [OSM-talk] Let's talk Attribution

2020-05-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Kathleen Lu wrote: > OSM has imported sources that are ODbL. The attribution to those sources > does not appear on the map, but rather after several clicks (usually first > to the copyright page, then the contributors page). If that's not > acceptable under ODbL for a map that has multiple data

Re: [OSM-talk] Funding of three infrastructure projects : Nominatim, osm2pgsql, Potlatch 2

2020-08-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Sören Reinecke wrote: > So far as I understood Adobe dropped Linux support for its > AIR plattform. If that is right, then I am in doubt that > supporting the development of Potlatch 2 is not that in > a sustainable manner. AIR is not maintained by Adobe, but by Harman, a Samsung subsidiary. AIR

Re: [OSM-talk] Funding of three infrastructure projects : Nominatim, osm2pgsql, Potlatch 2

2020-08-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Skyler Hawthorne wrote: > Sorry if this sounds harsh, but I think using any funds at all to > continue support for a tool that 1% of editors use would be wasteful. > Flash is, for all intents and purposes, a dead technology. This > money is better spent on other uses. The entire point is to move

Re: [OSM-talk] Funding of three infrastructure projects : Nominatim, osm2pgsql, Potlatch

2020-08-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
mmd wrote: > I'm wondering if some of the changes that are now needed for AIR > would make it more difficult to switch to Ruffle later on. The short answer is (based on the POC work I've done so far) no. :) The slightly longer answer is that I hope, as part of this project, to make a number of

Re: [OSM-talk] [Osmf-talk] Call to Take Action and Confront Systemic Offensive Behavior in the OSM Community

2020-12-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Blake Girardot wrote: > I will just point out a common pattern: Céline posted an eloquent opening statement that talks about "this dominant profile" and the thread has, true to form, largely descended into the same dominant profile arguing and "just pointing out" things. It might therefore be

Re: [OSM-talk] I’m running for OSMF board and I’ve set up office hours for questions

2020-12-02 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Michal Migurski wrote: > FB’s attribution approach in keeping with best practices > seen from other commercial users of display maps. In the spirit of Twitter footnoting one of Donald Trump's "I won the election" tweets, this is your respectful reminder that Google, Bing, Here, Tencent,

Re: [OSM-talk] Public Rights of Way overlay missing

2023-01-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jas Ranasinghe wrote: > Is anyone able to provide any information about the missing Public > Rights of Way overlay? It is still currently in the overlay list, but the > Rights of Way do not show up on the map. I'm guessing this refers to one of the tile layers I host at osm.cycle.travel.

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about OSM communication behaviors

2023-05-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Courtney wrote: > Or is it going to keep doing the same old flame wars? To be honest, the mailing lists have been on the way out for a long time now, and talk@ is no exception. Some once busy lists are now basically dead (dev@, legal-talk@, talk-de@). Others are noticeably quieter (talk@,

[Talk-transit] Public transport proposal

2011-01-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hello all, I note with some alarm the very complex, relation-heavy proposal for mapping simple public transport objects. Could I have your assurance that the proponents of this proposal will also be providing good-quality patches for the three principal editors (Potlatch, JOSM,

Re: [Talk-transit] Public transport proposal

2011-01-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
André Joost wrote: No need to panic, you don't *have* to use relations. I'm not panicking as a mapper. As a mapper I have exactly 0.0 interest in mapping bus stops. I'm anxious as an editor (co-)author. If such relations become widespread, they will (without explicit support) appear in

Re: [Talk-transit] Summary of Public Transport Proposal Criticism

2011-01-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Dominik Mahrer (Teddy) wrote: IMHO not related to the proposal: - potlatch can not handle the proposal/nested relations correctly: The latest version of Potlatch (Potlatch 2) handles nested relations excellently. About 10 seconds' research would have told you that. Richard

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] The OSM licence: where we are, where we're going

2008-01-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
rob wrote: Quoting Tom Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On the face it claims to work in those jurisdictions via contract law, but what is not clear to me is how you require people to enter into that contract. Yes this is my concern about the ODL. The GPL for example is a license not a contract

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] The OSM licence: where we are, where we're going

2008-01-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hi again, Rob and Frederik - I don't think it's too much of a leap to say that you're never going to convince each other. ;) A note on consultation and community might be helpful. As the Foundation we are, of course, keeping track of the different strands of opinion within the community

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] The OSM licence: where we are, where we're and are, where we're going

2008-01-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
(follow-ups to legal-talk, please) Peter Miller wrote: There are clearly uncertainties and complications with the current licence, however it does allow for the license to be upgraded without going back to original contributors for permission. In OSM's case that's unlikely to be true.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Software under GPLv2 / v3

2008-02-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Martijn van Exel wrote: We're considering the agreement between NLNet and OpenStreetMap-NL for a €15k grant for software development. It states that 'This software platform will be built in open source under GPLv3 license'. It is pointed out that that may be too restrictive, as projects

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Houses of cards

2008-02-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: To me at least, it seems obvious what Rob says. If you have something that is not copyrighted, and you give it someone [A] under a contract, and that person breaches te contract and publishes the data, then whatever you gave him is up for grabs by anyone [B] as they're

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] legal-talk Digest, Vol 19, Issue 1

2008-03-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Rob Myers wrote: John Wilbanks wrote: ps - Those of you interested in copyleft and freedom might want to interview Stallman on this issue as well. I tend not to agree with him on non-software issues but I would be very interested to know what he thinks, particularly since he has just

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] import of dataset for new zealand

2008-03-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robin Paulson wrote: On 18/03/2008, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robin Paulson wrote: (c) Crown Copyright w00t, Robin found his Shift key! ;) thanks, incredibly constructive. haven't you got something better to do? What, something better than having a sense of humour

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] import of dataset for new zealand

2008-03-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Robin Paulson wrote: i ignore people's suggestions when their first response is something in that tone. maybe if you want your point to be taken seriously you should make it in a serious way? 'k. Personally I find it more helpful to assess people's suggestions according to the value of the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] License update

2008-03-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Dominic Hargreaves wrote: I haven't been following recent OSM licence debates at all, but why not also offer the choice of licensing contributions under the PDDL[1] also? This does not prevent people from including such contributions in an ODL-licensed dataset. This would effectively

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License update

2008-03-18 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Charles Basenga Kiyanda wrote: I'm also wondering. How can one legally agree to release a contribution under a license which is unfinished? Or am I misunderstanding the situation and the ODL is in fact done? Technically speaking the user would be licensing their contributions under the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Reverse Geocoding

2008-04-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: What's your opinion? And would it change should the proposed new license get adopted? a. It's a bit of a moot point, because CC-BY-SA doesn't force you to distribute; so if the company generates the invoice and sends it to their customers, who don't distribute it

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Reverse Geocoding

2008-04-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: It means that CC isn't here to overcome local copyright law. So, if your local jurisdiction has a fair use right (e.g. US), you can apply it, no matter the CC license. The same applies for citation rights, private copy, parody, etc etc in other

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Attribution

2008-04-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Michael Collinson wrote: Other than that, well, I think we both share the same opinion that the current license is just unworkable full stop! :-) There's probably not a lot of point making a big song and dance about attribution at present. In a month or two's time, when we're ready to vote

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Crown copyright, OS and year of publication

2008-04-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tim Sheerman-Chase wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Out_of_copyright Is that interpretation about the FIRST year of publication definitely correct? Or should it be the year of last update? Has this been discussed before? The FIRST is pretty meaningless. The 1954 revision of a

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Reverse Geocoding

2008-04-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:34:33 +0200, Iván Sánchez Ortega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El Viernes, 4 de Abril de 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: There is no „minimal size of data” for the CC-BY-SA to apply. Hence all „viral SA” elements are triggered. Yes, there

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Meaning of

2008-04-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
[moved to legal-talk] Jeffrey Martin wrote: First is that someone can include public domain material in their own work and not tell the reader. The reader then does not know that they can copy or make derivative works from those public domain portions without permission. Second,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Newbie question - restrictions on the use of OpenStreetMap data.

2008-04-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Greg Mitchell wrote: Apologies for the newbie question, but could anyone tell me (or indeed point me at a relevant discussion thread in the archives) what the restrictions are on the use of OpenStreetMap data? In particular, can the data be used for commercial services or trials, and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Please enable commercial use

2008-05-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Sebastian Spaeth wrote: Frederik Ramm wrote: I think the biggest problem for commercial users is probably the fact that they can't get legal info from us - if they ask can we do X then our response will always be read the license and ask a lawyer. I agree, that is very unsatifactory. It is

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Please enable commercial use

2008-05-07 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote: I realise that the OSMF is taking external legal advice at the moment, but progress seems very slow Progress is not slow, it's just that it's not always possible to publicly communicate it at every turn. If you find that not knowing frustrates you, you could maybe

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Missing Openaerial map from Potlatch

2008-05-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
[cc:ed to legal-talk] Andy Allan wrote: That's pretty clear cut - i-Cubed own copyright over the imagery, and haven't given anyone any rights to do stuff with them - unless they explicitly say otherwise. Public Domain isn't viral for derived works. Probably the biggest thing I've learned

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Missing Openaerial map from Potlatch

2008-05-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Steve Hill wrote: Aren't OSM's GPS traces considered CC-BY-SA as well? I haven't seen anything specifically licensing them, but they are in the OSM database, accessible via the OSM API so I err on the side of assuming the CC-BY-SA licence applies to them too. They're not explicitly licensed

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Change Status?

2008-07-01 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: At least that was the idea when the ODbL and OFIL licenses came along. I'm eager to review the modifications and changes done to those licenses. ...which I hope should be at SOTM at the very latest! With particular relevance to this question, there is a new section

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Remove FRom List

2008-10-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
On 3 Oct 2008, at 16:38, Ed wrote: Please remove me from this mailing list. Please use the link at the bottom of every message, http:// lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk , to remove yourself. Richard ___ legal-talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New license: What is publication/distribution?

2008-10-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: There is one other thing I would hope the new license addresses, which is very unclear at the moment: When does something count as published? 4.2 Notices. You must, if You publicly Use by any means and in any form, this Database, any Derivative Database, or the Database

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New license: What is publication/distribution?

2008-10-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: By speaking of public on one hand and wholly internally on the other, the license seems to omit those cases where (a) the use is still internal but involves work from someone else, like the print shop or the auditing example, and those where (b) the use is not

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Paid services from OSM

2008-10-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Mikel Maron wrote: --- On Thu, 10/9/08, Simon Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Merely processing into a different format needs to be clarified. If someone takes OSM ways + nodes + relations and imports it into PostGIS without changing any of it, I see that as processing into a different format. I

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Paid services from OSM

2008-10-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: 2. if yes, add some sort of sponge wording like within a reasonable time frame to alleviate the problem for people who try to process current data. It only says you must also _offer_ to recipients (my emphasis), not you must provide in case anyone wants it - it's like

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Paid services from OSM

2008-10-11 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Dair Grant wrote: Richard Fairhurst wrote: b. A file containing all of the alterations made to the Database offered under this Licence, including any additional Data, that make up all the differences between the Database and the Derivative Database. Assuming I choose option (b

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Paid services from OSM

2008-10-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Tim Waters (chippy) wrote: On 10/11/08, Richard Fairhurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure, I wouldn't dispute that it's healthy. I would just observe that perceived failings may actually not have been failings for several months. As I said it would be good, very good indeed, to get the new

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License License License

2008-10-13 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Joseph Gentle wrote: The license is changing frustration is waning we can all see what the new license will be Some terms need explaining There once was a lawyer from Texas who tackled the issues that vex us CC is contrived when defining derived So let's switch before arguing wrecks us Am

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] My Notes on the brief for the proposed licence

2008-10-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
I've reverted the Open Data License page on the wiki to something near its original form, as the point of it (to provide a quick, one-stop comparison between CC-BY-SA and the ODBL) was getting lost amid all the 'brief' stuff. Peter's brief initiative is now at

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Click-through

2008-10-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: If either the current license draft or the brief brief mean that in the future, OSM data may only be offered after displaying a note to the user and requesting him to click ok (or the equivalent in other media), then this would be a significant drawback compared to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Click-through

2008-10-17 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: So if we can't get rid of the click-through is not the question. Replace it by if we cannot find a license that works without clicktrough. Well, there ain't none. Sorry, I'm over-simplifying. But the question is really simple, it's just the answer that's

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Starting Repository For Public Domain OSM Data

2008-10-20 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: The more complex thing is that some jurisdictions make it really difficult for you to give away your rights so generously. Which is a splendid reason to use WTFPL, reproduced here in its entirety: DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Starting Repository For Public Domain OSM Data

2008-10-21 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Joseph Gentle wrote: We won't have all the data under one license though. Never will if we're incorporating TIGER data and data from other governments. Yeah you will - a single PD disclaimer of rights (PDDL, CC0, Wikipedia-like, WTFPL, doesn't really matter), with an attribution/disclaimer

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] PD vs SA: The eternal battle

2008-10-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Joseph Gentle wrote: It seems to me like everyone wins. +1 to that entire message. cheers Richard ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] PD vs SA: The eternal battle

2008-10-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Rob Myers wrote: Community projects should not serve as random acts of kindness or distributed potlatch for corporations and local government. They should serve the community. I _do_ like the fact that people in OSM are starting to figure out why Potlatch is called Potlatch.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] PD vs SA: The eternal battle

2008-10-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
bvh wrote: If you think Apple wouldn't do that just look at webkit. I am quite convinced that had that one been pd they would just have forked it and never looked back... Actually, WebKit - which is licensed LGPL and BSD, _not_ GPL - is a good example of how liberal licences can work. See:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [Announcement] new mailing list: legal-general

2008-10-31 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote: Can I suggest that the 'Use Cases' page I created is used as a place for all Use Cases, including those being discussed by PD advocates? I am suggesting this because it will help keep a connection between the different proposals. If you add the Use Cases that

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Copyright of OSM-Logo (was: Creation of a user box in wikipedia user profiles)

2008-11-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Johann H. Addicks wrote: The copyright of the OSM-Logo itself is CC-sa-by? Matt Amos drew the original one, cc:ed. When I was on the OSM Foundation board last year there was some discussion about trademarking it. I'm not sure where that is now though - anyone from the board here? cheers

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Copyright of OSM-Logo (was: Creation of a user box in wikipedia user profiles)

2008-11-14 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: Richard Logo: http://www.ipo.gov.uk/t-find-number?trademark=2500155 Name: http://www.ipo.gov.uk/t-find-number?trademark=2500154 Ah, good, thanks. I presume the application is on behalf of OSMF? cheers Richard___ legal-talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] GPS traces and copying of facts

2009-01-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Nic Roets wrote: It has been said on this list that facts cannot be copyrighted. And IMHO gps traces are facts. Does this mean we can use data from any of the sites mention below ? Or are gps traces subject to the same type of copyright as photos ? In Britain and several other

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] licensing working group report

2009-01-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Mikel Maron wrote: So what's next? A technical team meeting will be held this week to discuss the technical implementation. Next week we will hold another licensing working group meeting, where we'll produced the final integrated plan of license and technical process, and timeline for

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Open Data Licence (Re: 23rd Dec board meeting)

2009-01-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
sward wrote: By having a closed development process, and publishing drafts for review, OSMF have forced the process to involve rounds of consultation. It's not OSMF's licence. It is a third-party licence which OSM is considering and on which OSMF has sponsored some work. To my knowledge

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licensing Working Group report, 2009/01/22

2009-01-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
andrzej zaborowski wrote: Also a different question is bothering me. The old license is the well known CC-BY-SA, so it is automatically compatible with sources (and consumers) using the same license. So, say I've uploaded a lot of information based on wikipedia, conscious that I'm

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Open Data Licence (Re: 23rd Dec board meeting)

2009-01-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
sward wrote: Communications with Jordan have apparently broken down. Mikel's e-mail of 15th Jan, which post-dates the minutes you're quoting from, said Jordan had been involved in a meeting with them the previous day, and was currently in discussion with Wilson Semprini (/monty_python). cheers

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Open Data Licence (Re: 23rd Dec board meeting)

2009-01-25 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote: If that is news to you as well Richard, then I am really confused. I think that must have been a slip of the tongue on his part - I stepped down from OSMF last summer and have had no official involvement with this process since then. Certainly when I was involved, the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A Creative Commons iCommons license

2009-02-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: It's my understanding that the ODbL is very different from a CC-BY-SA license, so I think this would be a very unlikely thing to happen. It's a share-alike licence with some attribution provision - I'd say that, in fact, the two licences have pretty much the same intent. It's just

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A Creative Commons iCommons license

2009-02-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: It does have a share alike clause but it is different from the CC one. As it gives the user fewer rights it's hard to see how it would be compatible. In the analogue case, GFDL's share-alike is different from CC-BY-SA's, yet the relicensing happened. The point is that compatible

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] License to kill

2009-03-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
OJ W wrote: Given that maps need to be regularly updated to stay useful, anyone relying on a CC-BY-SA loophole will be just as SOL if we change the license in a year as if we changed it in time for april fools Shit, I'd better cancel the 25,000 copies of Waterways World rolling off the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] License to kill

2009-03-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
OJ W wrote: The UK canals don't contribute to the licensing discussions because you mapped them as PD. I did? I've done comparatively little canal line mapping in OSM, let alone bridges and locks. Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] License to kill

2009-03-05 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: I support Frederik's view that the community is the most valuable aspect of OSM. Um, I'm not arguing against that. All I'm disputing is this silly little notion that maps automatically lose all value after a year or two. cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Are Produced Works anti-share alike?

2009-03-06 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Richard Fairhurst wrote: there are three things that spring to mind I meant four (no-one expects the Spanish Inquisition, etc.). 4. OSMF can request additional permissions over and above ODbL from its users, as part of the new user sign-up, or the licence change agreement. (Effectively dual

[OSM-legal-talk] Computer-generated derivative

2009-03-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Hello all, This isn't (shock horror) specifically a licence-change post. If Fred has a program running on his computer that downloads OSM data, then combines it with some proprietary, non-CC-BY-SA stuff, that's perfectly ok as long as Fred doesn't then distribute the result. In fact, Fred

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [Spam] Re: License Telephone Debate

2009-03-12 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Peter Miller wrote: The voice call idea might work, however I would ask the working group to provide any answers they already have to questions on the Open Issues page before the event so that we don't waste time and also ask you to be sensitive to Frederik's observation that voice

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Telephone Debate

2009-03-16 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Gervase Markham wrote: Taking ODbL 0.9 instead of 1.0, I think that's at least debatable, given the issues raised by the ITO lawyer and others. But happily no-one is proposing that we move to 0.9. So let's put some effort into getting 1.0 as good as it can be. To date the only Difficult

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL comments from Creative Commons

2009-03-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Ulf Möller wrote: Thinh Nguyen of Creative Commons has posted detailed comments on the ODbL on the co-ment website. Though I have a lot of time for CC in general, and agree with their general stance that PD is the ideal way to go, I don't really find that a very useful response. I count 20

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OS Copyright Notice and Year

2009-03-23 Thread Richard Fairhurst
TimSC wrote: The safe move move might be to use the latest date. Now based on the Office of Public Service Information web page the copyright year IS the year of first publication My understanding is that this could refer to first publication of the revised edition - in other words, take

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