Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Per discussione SteveC
On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:18 PM, Anthony wrote: I never said someone with a law degree would never make such a statement. I said they are no more qualified to make such a statement than anyone else. So let me get this straight, lawyers are not more qualified to make legal arguments than anyone

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Per discussione Anthony
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:21 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:18 PM, Anthony wrote: I never said someone with a law degree would never make such a statement. I said they are no more qualified to make such a statement than anyone else. So let me get this straight,

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Per discussione Liz
On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, SteveC wrote: Well that doesn't work, Why doesn't it work? See legal-talk ad nauseum. I've read the whole lot, over an 18 month period of time, and there is no proof that CC-by-SA doesn't work simplification of the argument does not assist anyone. It may not protect

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Per discussione Anthony
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:21 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:18 PM, Anthony wrote: I never said someone with a law degree would never make such a statement. I said they are no more qualified to make

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Per discussione Anthony
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: It is however quite stupid to think that only 265 people care enough about their data to be worth a vote The vote isn't about their data, though. Each person individually will be able to choose what to do with their data.

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Per discussione SteveC
On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:25 PM, Liz wrote: On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, SteveC wrote: Well that doesn't work, Why doesn't it work? See legal-talk ad nauseum. I've read the whole lot, over an 18 month period of time, and there is no proof that CC-by-SA doesn't work I've not seen anything proving

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Per discussione Anthony
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: It is however quite stupid to think that only 265 people care enough about their data to be worth a vote The vote isn't about their data, though. Each person

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Per discussione SteveC
On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:33 PM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: It is however quite stupid to think that only 265 people care enough about their data to be worth a vote The vote isn't

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Per discussione Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: You're really advocating switching license without asking anyone? Isn't he merely stating that if you truly believe CC-BY-SA doesn't protect the data, you don't have to ask anyone to do so? Stefan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Per discussione SteveC
On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:44 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: You're really advocating switching license without asking anyone? Isn't he merely stating that if you truly believe CC-BY-SA doesn't protect the data, you don't have to

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Per discussione Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:44 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: You're really advocating switching license without asking anyone? Isn't he merely stating that if you truly

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Per discussione SteveC
On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:51 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:44 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: You're really advocating switching license without

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Per discussione Anthony
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:36 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Dec 8, 2009, at 1:33 PM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: It is however quite stupid to think that only 265 people

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Per discussione Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: You're really advocating switching license without asking anyone? Isn't he merely stating that if you truly believe CC-BY-SA doesn't protect the data, you don't have to ask anyone to do so? to do what, relicense? Exactly; if

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Per discussione SteveC
On Dec 8, 2009, at 2:03 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: You're really advocating switching license without asking anyone? Isn't he merely stating that if you truly believe CC-BY-SA doesn't protect the data, you don't have to ask

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Per discussione Anthony
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:54 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: So you really are saying the LWG / OSMF should just ignore everyone and change the license? What do you mean change the license? Isn't your position that CC-BY-SA is invalid in the first place? The OSMF doesn't need permission

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Per discussione Peteris Krisjanis
SteveC schreef: You're really advocating switching license without asking anyone? Isn't he merely stating that if you truly believe CC-BY-SA doesn't protect the data, you don't have to ask anyone to do so? to do what, relicense? Exactly; if your statement is sound. CC-BY-SA doesn't protect

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Per discussione Anthony
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Peteris Krisjanis pec...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway, you can call him a troll, but I agree I so far haven't heard sound arguments why CC-BY-SA doesn't work and what work actually means. Doesn't work for Cloudmade? I think you hit the nail on the head.

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Per discussione SteveC
On Dec 8, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: SteveC schreef: You're really advocating switching license without asking anyone? Isn't he merely stating that if you truly believe CC-BY-SA doesn't protect the data, you don't have to ask anyone to do so? to do what, relicense?

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Per discussione Frederik Ramm
Stefan, Stefan de Konink wrote: Exactly; if your statement is sound. CC-BY-SA doesn't protect us, thus doesn't protect us against ourselves, thus OSMF could declare the data today as ODbL, and wait to get sued by the editors that doesn't like this change, if the CC-BY-SA holds the relicense

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Per discussione SteveC
On Dec 8, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Peteris Krisjanis pec...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway, you can call him a troll, but I agree I so far haven't heard sound arguments why CC-BY-SA doesn't work and what work actually means. Doesn't work for Cloudmade? I

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Per discussione Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: Why don't you do it then, try and fork to CC0 or PD with planet.osm ? Because I'm not convinced that CC-BY-SA won't hold ;) Especially related some recent cases over here with the claim This was our intention the intention for OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Per discussione Anthony
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:15 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Dec 8, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Anthony wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Peteris Krisjanis pec...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway, you can call him a troll, but I agree I so far haven't heard sound arguments why CC-BY-SA doesn't

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Per discussione SteveC
On Dec 8, 2009, at 2:18 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: Why don't you do it then, try and fork to CC0 or PD with planet.osm ? Because I'm not convinced that CC-BY-SA won't hold ;) So if IP lawyers cannot convince you, who or

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Per discussione Peteris Krisjanis
2009/12/8 SteveC st...@asklater.com: On Dec 8, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: SteveC schreef: You're really advocating switching license without asking anyone? Isn't he merely stating that if you truly believe CC-BY-SA doesn't protect the data, you don't have to ask anyone to do

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Per discussione Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Frederik, Frederik Ramm schreef: Stefan de Konink wrote: Exactly; if your statement is sound. CC-BY-SA doesn't protect us, thus doesn't protect us against ourselves, thus OSMF could declare the data today as ODbL, and wait to get sued by the

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Per discussione Apollinaris Schoell
Anthony wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Peteris Krisjanis pec...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway, you can call him a troll, but I agree I so far haven't heard sound arguments why CC-BY-SA "doesn't work" and what "work" actually means. Doesn't work for Cloudmade? I think you hit the nail

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Per discussione Anthony
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:20 PM, SteveC st...@asklater.com wrote: On Dec 8, 2009, at 2:18 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: Why don't you do it then, try and fork to CC0 or PD with planet.osm ? Because I'm not convinced

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Per discussione Anthony
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Apollinaris Schoell ascho...@gmail.comwrote: Anthony wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Peteris Krisjanis pec...@gmail.comwrote: Anyway, you can call him a troll, but I agree I so far haven't heard sound arguments why CC-BY-SA doesn't work and what work

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-08 Per discussione Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: On Dec 8, 2009, at 2:18 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 SteveC schreef: Why don't you do it then, try and fork to CC0 or PD with planet.osm ? Because I'm not convinced that

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-07 Per discussione SteveC
On Dec 6, 2009, at 1:48 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: Well, you may think Creative Commons is stupid, but I hope others will give them a chance and listen to what they have to say. I think they will, considering that Creative

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-07 Per discussione SteveC
On Dec 6, 2009, at 2:03 AM, 80n wrote: On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 6:00 AM, Matt Amos zerebub...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Stefan de Konink ste...@konink.de wrote: Matt Amos schreef: we're talking about moving to another license with very similar requirements, but a

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-07 Per discussione Ed Avis
SteveC steve at asklater.com writes: With a gun at their head: Refuse: After the migration (currently 26th February 2010), your contributions will not be included in ODbL licensed downloads and you will not be able to continue contributing.. If you call this a vote, then we have pretty

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-07 Per discussione Ed Avis
SteveC steve at asklater.com writes: It is not very wise of ODbL proponents to claim that CC say that CC-BY-SA doesn't work for data without also admitting that CC recommend CC0 for data. Personally I don't because the former is a legal opinion and the latter is a moral crusade opinion.

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-07 Per discussione SteveC
On Dec 7, 2009, at 11:53 AM, Ed Avis wrote: SteveC steve at asklater.com writes: With a gun at their head: Refuse: After the migration (currently 26th February 2010), your contributions will not be included in ODbL licensed downloads and you will not be able to continue contributing..

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-06 Per discussione Frederik Ramm
Hi, On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: Well, you may think Creative Commons is stupid, but I hope others will give them a chance and listen to what they have to say. I think they will, considering that Creative Commons is well known and respected, compared to Open

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-06 Per discussione 80n
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 6:00 AM, Matt Amos zerebub...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Stefan de Konink ste...@konink.de wrote: Matt Amos schreef: we're talking about moving to another license with very similar requirements, but a different implementation, and that's not

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-06 Per discussione Patrick Kilian
Hi all, I live in the United States. I can do whatever the heck I want with the OSM database. Now you want me to agree to a contract limiting those rights. So I'll ask again: What's in it for me? My data. The streets I mapped. The trails I mapped. The POIs I mapped. The Indonesian islands

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-06 Per discussione Frederik Ramm
Anthony, Anthony wrote: I looked at the license and I said Why are they bothering with this crap? It's not like this stuff is copyrightable in the first place. Well, I guess that this stuff is protected by some laws in some jurisdictions, so CC-BY-SA is useful for waiving those rights in

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-06 Per discussione Lester Caine
SteveC wrote: Oh we have those people though, matt is calm, rational and diligently replying to the concerns. Note its mostly misunderstood or ignored by people like 80n. That frees me to lose my temper with the passive aggressive lot who just want to screw everything up and can't work

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-06 Per discussione Mike Collinson
At 10:26 PM 5/12/2009, Ian Dees wrote: On Dec 5, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: If you are an OSMF member then you should have received an email about this vote, which contains a URL with which you can access this site. If you have not received an email, first please

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-06 Per discussione Mike Collinson
At 01:58 AM 6/12/2009, John Smith wrote: 2009/12/6 Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk: The License Working Group has spent months, well probably nearer years, on the license change. They know one heck of a lot more about legal systems than myself. They are people that I trust. Therefore

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-06 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: You've spent many many hours studying the licensing issues and claim to have a deep understanding of the issues. If CC BY-SA is as broken as you claim it is then Google, Navteq, Teleatlas and many others would all have helped themselves to our data by now. You can't continue

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-06 Per discussione 80n
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.netwrote: 80n wrote: You've spent many many hours studying the licensing issues and claim to have a deep understanding of the issues. If CC BY-SA is as broken as you claim it is then Google, Navteq, Teleatlas and many

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-06 Per discussione Anthony
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 4:18 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: However, one thing you should perhaps consider is this argument of project sanity: We're all in this together. It's no good having a license that has different effects in different countries. And that is one of the

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-06 Per discussione Anthony
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 4:12 AM, Patrick Kilian o...@petschge.de wrote: Hi all, I live in the United States. I can do whatever the heck I want with the OSM database. Now you want me to agree to a contract limiting those rights. So I'll ask again: What's in it for me? My data. The

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-06 Per discussione Matt Amos
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 9:03 AM, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: You can't continue to claim that CC BY-SA is broken without some evidence of our data being abused.  Put up or shut up, please. Show us the evidence of license abuse please.

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-06 Per discussione Dave F.
Shalabh wrote: Steve, I have to agree with John. Fence sitter or not, Ulf has raised a point which has not been answered till now. More importantly, mappers like me who contribute everyday and are not part of OSMF have no clue about what this is. Now that this discussion is so openly in

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-06 Per discussione Patrick Kilian
I live in the United States. I can do whatever the heck I want with the OSM database. Now you want me to agree to a contract limiting those rights. So I'll ask again: What's in it for me? My data. The streets I mapped. The trails I mapped. The POIs I mapped. The Indonesian islands I

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-06 Per discussione Peteris Krisjanis
It is clear that we all have different opinions about this license change. However, I would like to hear down-to-earth explaining what and how will happen when license change kicks in? How OSMF will work with contributors to get their data converted? How they will try to convince them? etc. If it

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-06 Per discussione Frederik Ramm
Hi, Anthony wrote: Actually, I was planning on doing exactly this with a map of my office on the back of my business card. I'm not about to start handing out CDs along with my business cards. I think you are only required to hand out the database on which your rendering is based. And it

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-06 Per discussione Anthony
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Anthony wrote: Actually, I was planning on doing exactly this with a map of my office on the back of my business card. I'm not about to start handing out CDs along with my business cards. I think you are only

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-06 Per discussione Anthony
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.netwrote: In other words: If you want to use OSM data without attribution or share-alike, you may do so by distributing the program that makes the derivative, rather than the derivative itself. This is perfectly permissible

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-06 Per discussione Dave F.
SteveC wrote: No there's an entire other list for it... But the LWG has tried hard to keep the other lists up to date. The evidence with the number of posts here suggests that it didn't work. This situation reminds me of the location of the planning application in the opening chapters of The

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-06 Per discussione Anthony
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: I haven't decided, but I'll probably even grant y'all the permission to use my previous contributions without any restrictions whatsoever. I don't have a problem with that. What I have a problem with is agreeing to the ODbL.

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-06 Per discussione Frederik Ramm
Hi, Anthony wrote: On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org mailto:o...@inbox.org wrote: I haven't decided, but I'll probably even grant y'all the permission to use my previous contributions without any restrictions whatsoever. I don't have a problem with that.

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-06 Per discussione Anthony
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, Anthony wrote: On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Anthony o...@inbox.org mailto: o...@inbox.org wrote: I haven't decided, but I'll probably even grant y'all the permission to use my previous contributions

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-06 Per discussione Anthony
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: So if it is really your intention to not use OSM data any more but still let us use your past contributions, you can safely check one of the Agree options? By the way, I should clarify, I certainly don't plan to stop

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-06 Per discussione Anthony
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: My understanding is that by using this site you agree to the ODbL will be part of the terms of service of the OSM website, so I can't even *reject* the contributor terms without agreeing to the ODbL. Hmm, thinking about this more,

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-06 Per discussione Frederik Ramm
Hi, Anthony wrote: I don't know. I've asked the legal list for the answer to this, and I only got one response, which I found unclear. My understanding is that by using this site you agree to the ODbL will be part of the terms of service of the OSM website, so I can't even *reject* the

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-06 Per discussione Anthony
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Also, I don't think it is in anybody's intention to put anything else than OSM data under the ODbL. So it should really not read by using this site... but instead by using OSM data from this site... or so. A specious

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Per discussione Ian Dees
On Dec 5, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: If you are an OSMF member then you should have received an email about this vote, which contains a URL with which you can access this site. If you have not received an email, first please check your spam folder then, if

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Per discussione Anthony
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 5, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: If you are an OSMF member then you should have received an email about this vote, which contains a URL with which you can access this site. If you have not

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Per discussione Liz
On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, Anthony wrote: Is this email implying that contributers to OSM who are not members o the OSMF can not vote on the license decision? If so, how are non-OSMF members represented in this vote? If a non-OSMF member rejects the Contributor Terms, all their contributions

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Per discussione Tom Hughes
On 05/12/09 21:47, Liz wrote: quote An email has been sent to 265 members with membership in good standing (paid) as of October 13th 2009. It has instructions and a unique personal link for voting. /quote 265 persons out of tens of thousands is in no way representative. Whatever the

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Per discussione Ulf Lamping
Tom Hughes schrieb: On 05/12/09 21:47, Liz wrote: quote An email has been sent to 265 members with membership in good standing (paid) as of October 13th 2009. It has instructions and a unique personal link for voting. /quote 265 persons out of tens of thousands is in no way

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Per discussione Tom Hughes
On 05/12/09 22:44, Ulf Lamping wrote: Tom Hughes schrieb: Polling the OSMF members is just the first stage - there will another vote later when all contributors will be asked whether they want to relicense. With a gun at their head: Refuse: After the migration (currently 26th February

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Per discussione Ian Dees
On Dec 5, 2009, at 4:09 PM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: On 05/12/09 21:47, Liz wrote: quote An email has been sent to 265 members with membership in good standing (paid) as of October 13th 2009. It has instructions and a unique personal link for voting. /quote 265 persons out

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Per discussione James Livingston
On 06/12/2009, at 8:44 AM, Ulf Lamping wrote: Tom Hughes schrieb: Polling the OSMF members is just the first stage - there will another vote later when all contributors will be asked whether they want to relicense. With a gun at their head: Refuse: After the migration (currently 26th

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Per discussione Ulf Lamping
Tom Hughes schrieb: On 05/12/09 22:44, Ulf Lamping wrote: Tom Hughes schrieb: Polling the OSMF members is just the first stage - there will another vote later when all contributors will be asked whether they want to relicense. With a gun at their head: Refuse: After the migration

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Per discussione Ulf Lamping
James Livingston schrieb: On 06/12/2009, at 8:44 AM, Ulf Lamping wrote: If you call this a vote, then we have pretty different understanding about voting. I'd say it isn't a vote, it's asking whether you agree to relicense your contributions under the ODbL subject to the Contributor

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Per discussione Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 James Livingston schreef: For example, I have inferred road positions from the CC-BY-licensed Queensland DCDB-lite dataset, and have uploaded national park and world-heritage areas from the CC-BY dataset on data.australia.gov.au. As I'm not the

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Per discussione Frederik Ramm
Hi, James Livingston wrote: For example, I have inferred road positions from the CC-BY-licensed Queensland DCDB-lite dataset, and have uploaded national park and world-heritage areas from the CC-BY dataset on data.australia.gov.au. As I'm not the copyright holder of those base datasets, I

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2009-12-05 Per discussione Kai Krueger
Ulf Lamping wrote: div class=moz-text-flowed style=font-family: -moz-fixedTom Hughes schrieb: On 05/12/09 22:44, Ulf Lamping wrote: Tom Hughes schrieb: Polling the OSMF members is just the first stage - there will another vote later when all contributors will be asked whether they want to

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2009-12-05 Per discussione Ulf Lamping
Kai Krueger schrieb: Don't you see that this is a complete inappropriate way to deal with an open community? No, as the previous process has always been pretty open with discussions on talk, legal-talk, the wiki and some of the mailing lists. How much more open do you want it to be with

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2009-12-05 Per discussione Shaun McDonald
The License Working Group has spent months, well probably nearer years, on the license change. They know one heck of a lot more about legal systems than myself. They are people that I trust. Therefore I'm going to listen to them, and let them just get on with it. I really just wan this license

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2009-12-05 Per discussione John Smith
2009/12/6 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: 2009/12/6 Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk: The License Working Group has spent months, well probably nearer years, on the license change. They know one heck of a lot more about legal systems than myself. They are people that I trust.

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2009-12-05 Per discussione Richard Fairhurst
John Smith wrote: Shaun McDonald wrote: The License Working Group has spent months, well probably nearer years, on the license change. They know one heck of a lot more about legal systems than myself. They are people that I trust. Therefore I'm going to listen to them, and let them

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2009-12-05 Per discussione Ulf Lamping
SteveC schrieb: On Dec 5, 2009, at 3:44 PM, Ulf Lamping wrote: With a gun at their head: Refuse: After the migration (currently 26th February 2010), your contributions will not be included in ODbL licensed downloads and you will not be able to continue contributing.. If you call this a

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2009-12-05 Per discussione John Smith
2009/12/6 Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net: Creative Commons, of course, has practising copyright lawyers too. They have said that CC-BY-SA isn't applicable to data and we shouldn't use it. There has also been a lot of data imported from Government sources that released data as CC-BY-SA

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2009-12-05 Per discussione Frederik Ramm
Hi, Richard Fairhurst wrote: The ODbL is overseen by a board which, as well as Jordan, Charlotte and Clark, also includes Lucie Guibault, a professor of copyright from the Netherlands, and Andres Guadamuz, a lecturer in E-Commerce Law and consultant to the World Intellectual Property

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2009-12-05 Per discussione Anthony
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 5, 2009, at 4:09 PM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: Polling the OSMF members is just the first stage - there will another vote later when all contributors will be asked whether they want to relicense. Why not

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Per discussione Ulf Lamping
Shaun McDonald schrieb: The License Working Group has spent months, well probably nearer years, on the license change. They know one heck of a lot more about legal systems than myself. They are people that I trust. Therefore I'm going to listen to them, and let them just get on with it. I

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2009-12-05 Per discussione Grant Slater
2009/12/6 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: There have been some independent reviews of ODbL. snip There is also Andrea Rossato who the Italian OSM community hired independently to review the license. I believe he said something like ODbL is CC BY-SA without the problems. Could someone from

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2009-12-05 Per discussione John Smith
2009/12/6 Anthony o...@inbox.org: No sense in wasting everyone's time if the OSMF members aren't going to agree to it anyway? I'm pretty sure he meant asking contributors before threatening to remove their contributions. It'll still be there.  In perfect form for the fork which will

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2009-12-05 Per discussione SteveC
On Dec 5, 2009, at 18:17, Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com wrote: SteveC schrieb: On Dec 5, 2009, at 3:44 PM, Ulf Lamping wrote: With a gun at their head: Refuse: After the migration (currently 26th February 2010), your contributions will not be included in ODbL licensed

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2009-12-05 Per discussione John Smith
2009/12/6 SteveC st...@asklater.com: Are you also living on planet Frederik? Out of all the crazy claims this has to be the most crazy. Where have you been the past year of consultations? How is insulting people going to help things? ___ talk

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2009-12-05 Per discussione Cartinus
On Sunday 06 December 2009 02:25:16 Frederik Ramm wrote: And there's a review in Dutch by an Internet lawyer of which I cannot say whether it's good or bad: http://blog.iusmentis.com/2009/07/15/open-source-databanken-de-opendatabank licentie-versie-10 Basically he is saying that he thinks

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2009-12-05 Per discussione Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Frederik Ramm schreef: And there's a review in Dutch by an Internet lawyer of which I cannot say whether it's good or bad: http://blog.iusmentis.com/2009/07/15/open-source-databanken-de-opendatabanklicentie-versie-10 I can... before Arnoud

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2009-12-05 Per discussione Ulf Lamping
SteveC schrieb: On Dec 5, 2009, at 18:17, Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com wrote: SteveC schrieb: On Dec 5, 2009, at 3:44 PM, Ulf Lamping wrote: With a gun at their head: Refuse: After the migration (currently 26th February 2010), your contributions will not be included in ODbL

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2009-12-05 Per discussione Anthony
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 8:33 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/12/6 Anthony o...@inbox.org: It isn't applicable to data in jurisdictions where data can't be copyrighted. Part of the proposal of switching to the ODbL is to go *beyond* copyright law by imposing an EULA

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2009-12-05 Per discussione SteveC
Yours c. Steve On Dec 5, 2009, at 18:43, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/6 SteveC st...@asklater.com: Are you also living on planet Frederik? Out of all the crazy claims this has to be the most crazy. Where have you been the past year of consultations? How is

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2009-12-05 Per discussione SteveC
Yours c. Steve On Dec 5, 2009, at 18:55, Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com wrote: SteveC schrieb: On Dec 5, 2009, at 18:17, Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com wrote: SteveC schrieb: On Dec 5, 2009, at 3:44 PM, Ulf Lamping wrote: With a gun at their head: Refuse: After the

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2009-12-05 Per discussione John Smith
2009/12/6 SteveC st...@asklater.com: By letting them know FUD and BS will be shot down. And you are coming off just as unrational as you are claiming they are being and not helping fence sitters one bit. If you want a dictatorship on the matter say so, otherwise you or others wanting the change

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2009-12-05 Per discussione John Smith
2009/12/6 Anthony o...@inbox.org: Click through type agreements have already been deemed as unenforceable, Can you provide me with a few links to back that up (off-list or on the legal list if you think it's too off-topic)?  To my knowledge the enforceability is spotty and unclear. Trying

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2009-12-05 Per discussione bernhard
... I believe he said something like ODbL is CC BY-SA without the problems. Easy example: With CC-BY-SA this tile http://c.tile.cloudmade.com/BC9A493B41014CAABB98F0471D759707/1/256/5/16/10.png?1253694005 is also CC-BY-SA. With ODBL the tile could have a different license including a

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2009-12-05 Per discussione SteveC
On Dec 5, 2009, at 19:40, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/6 SteveC st...@asklater.com: By letting them know FUD and BS will be shot down. And you are coming off just as unrational as you are claiming they are being and not helping fence sitters one bit. Read the

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2009-12-05 Per discussione John Smith
2009/12/6 SteveC st...@asklater.com: Read the wikipedia entry on tit for tat, and iterated prisoners dilemma. That's just it, I'm trying to avoid the conjecture in coming up with an opinion on if this is a good thing or not for me and my contributions or not. ie am I wasting time contributing

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2009-12-05 Per discussione Anthony
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 9:43 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/12/6 Anthony o...@inbox.org: Click through type agreements have already been deemed as unenforceable, Can you provide me with a few links to back that up (off-list or on the legal list if you think it's too

Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

2009-12-05 Per discussione John F. Eldredge
@openstreetmap.orgtalk@openstreetmap.org; Tom Hughest...@compton.nu Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started On Dec 5, 2009, at 18:17, Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com wrote: SteveC schrieb: On Dec 5, 2009, at 3:44 PM, Ulf Lamping wrote: With a gun at their head

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