On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 at 14:58, Ulrich Lamm <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Some important OSM-menbers prefer ignorant mapping, producing a > fragmentary presentation og waterways. > It's not about "ignorant" or "knowledgeable" mapping. It never has been. It's about COPYRIGHT. Does the copyright of the material you use give you permission to use it in that way? Using Google Translate on https://wbv-trebel.wbv-mv.de/?page_id=97 I found my way to https://wbv-trebel.wbv-mv.de/?page_id=14 which says this: The content and works on these pages created by the site operators are subject to German copyright law. The duplication, processing, distribution and any kind of exploitation outside the limits of copyright require the written consent of the respective author or creator. Downloads and copies of this site are for private, non-commercial use only. As far as the contents on this side were not created by the operator, the copyrights of third parties are considered. In particular contents of third parties are marked as such. Should you still be aware of a copyright infringement, we ask for a note. Upon notification of violations, we will remove such content immediately. If you use the information there to add things to OSM then you are breaching the requirement that you use that information for PRIVATE use ONLY. And because OSM data is used by commercial offerings such as Mapbox, you are breaching the requirement that you use that copied information for NON-COMMERCIAL use ONLY. This is not about a preference for "ignorant" mapping. It never has been. It is about breaking the law. It isn't just that a court would compel OSM to remove your infringing data, the court might compel OSM to pay damages. I don't know if you are incapable of understanding that this is about COPYRIGHT or you merely pretend to be ignorant of it. Until you show you are capable of understanding the issue of copyright and of complying with OSM's requirements to respect the copyright of others then people will keep reverting your changes and temporarily banning you. Your "knowledgeable" mapping is a liability to OSM, not an asset. Actually, you seem to be interpreting objections to your use of copyright source A as an objection about source A, not about your use of copyright material in general. So you come here to moan, and switch to copyright source B. People then object to you using copyright source B, which your take as an objection about source B, not about your use of copyright material in general. We're down to copyright source E or F now (that I know of) and you still haven't mastered the generalization that it is about your use of COPYRIGHT material, not about which source you're using. To be honest, if I had the power (it's probably a good thing I don't) I'd have put a lifetime ban on you months ago because you seem incapable of understanding what you are doing wrong. -- Paul
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