Dear talk-cz readers,
sorry for writing in English, I hope someone will be able to
translate this.
I have been asked by user hanoj to mark some of user pavel's edits as
clean on the OSM Inspector license change view. hanoj has made an entry
to this page listing the changesets in question:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Quick_History_Service/Changeset_Lists#Pavel_imports_in_Czech_Republic
Before I act on this request I would like to make sure everybody
understands the situation.
It is no problem for me to mark these edits as clean. However I am not
the person who decides what will get "through" when the license change
is performed in 2012; at that time, the OSMF/LWG will decide which edits
are ok to keep.
Now if I mark these edits as clean but pavel later writes to OSMF/LWG
and says that he claims a copyright on these edits, then OSMF/LWG might
choose to err on the side of caution, and not allow these edits. Then
they will not be allowed to remain in the database, and one of you will
have to re-import everything.
You have four options:
1. Ideally, pavel would agree that these changesets come from a free
source and are not affected by his general rejection of the Contributor
Terms. This is what e.g. balrog-kun has done for many of his imports and
bot edits and I think it is the grown-up thing to do; one should not
claim a copyright where none exists. Then the data would be safe and I
could mark it as such on OSMI.
2. You could talk to LWG and ask them to investigate the situation; if
they say "yep, these edits can be kept even if pavel is against it" then
the data is safe and I could mark it as such on OSMI. But this might
take a while.
3. You could delete pavel's contribution and re-import. OSMI will
automatically detect that pavel's stuff is removed and no special action
is necessary.
4. I can, and this is what hanoj asked for, simply mark pavel's
contribution as ok on OSMI *without* any of the above. This carries the
risk that it might turn out not to be ok later.
I would be happy if you could discuss this amongst yourselves, and let
me know what you would prefer. I have no objection to marking pavel's
contribution as ok but you must know the risk associated with that.
Bye
Frederik
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