Re: [Talk-gb-midanglia] Licence Change

2011-12-21 Thread Richard Moss 




On 21 December 2011 at 14:21 Malcolm Scott m...@lcolm.org.uk wrote:

 At 14:14 today, Richard Moss wrote:

  If you can't be bothered with any of this and have given up with OSM, an
  alternative would be for you to give me your account. I don't particularly
  want to do that, but it's an option.

 Is that really a valid option?  Giving you his account would not, I
 believe, give you the copyright to any data he has contributed and so you
 would not be in a position to legitimately relicense his data.

 (IANAL.)

 --
 Malcolm Scott
Interesting question.  I saw the idea suggested somewhere on one of the OSM
talk lists (I think) but in the morass of discussion on this subject I can't
now put my finger on it.  Perhaps give me your account and copyright of the
data would be safer wording?
 
IANAL either and to be honest, I find all this dreary discussion of the nuances
of international copyright law a complete turn-off.  The sooner we get past 1
April the better.
 
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Re: [Talk-gb-midanglia] Licence Change

2011-12-21 Thread David Earl 
I did the same around Teversham/Cherry Hinton last week, and also looked 
at what I'd need to do to replace unlicensed contributions. I've written 
personally to the following:


smncrsk
Martin Green
user_4538
Roman
Robert Duncan
Dave Tracey
NickF
HendrikG
Simon Proven

of which only the last has replied (he's accepted now). A 10% success 
rate isn't terribly encouraging! I imagine this is mainly die to changed 
email addresses - some of them haven't done anything in ages. OTOH, the 
Cambridge area is generally in pretty good shape, with fairly isolated 
non-accepting users.


Martin Green has done a lot of University stuff and buildings in 
Cambridge. I will be replacing all of these anyway in the next few 
months for Project Drake, so while they look quite extensive, I'm not 
overly worried about these.


Note that user CrispinF has explicitly declined the license so if you 
find any contributions by him, they definitely need to be removed/replaced.


David

On 21/12/2011 14:14, Richard Moss wrote:

I've just started browsing the new OSM Inspector site for data that
might be lost around here http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/?view=wtfe . At
randon, I've picked some red items near St Ives, and note they were
produced by user:Jez. I've sent the following to Jez via the OSM
messaging system:

Your OSM contributions around St Ives

Hi Jez

I don't know if you're aware, but OSM is changing the license that the
data is produced under. See
http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/We_Are_Changing_The_License .

People like you am me, who joined OSM before a certain date, have to
accept the terms of the new licence, otherwise their contributions will
be lost. They've now set a date of 1 April 2012 for the chageover.

In searching round my patch of Cambridgeshire, I've noticed that some of
the data around St Ives is yours, and that so far, you are 'undecided'
about the new licence. If you don't agree to the new terms before 1
April, your stuff will be lost, which would be a pity.

Are you aware of all this, and will you be accepting or declining the
terms? If you can't be bothered with any of this and have given up with
OSM, an alternative would be for you to give me your account. I don't
particularly want to do that, but it's an option.

Anyway, if you get this, please let me know what you think about it all.

Best wishes

Richard Moss

[end]

I don't know if it will bear fruit - suggestions for improvements on the
text please. Is anybody else around here looking at this? Would it be
worth a coordinated effort?

Richard



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