On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Sam Vekemans <[email protected]> wrote: > Yup, > I was waiting for you to respond. :-) [ ... ] > So at your "general intent" of your reply, i "shelve it" until all the > "recieved Rw Approval" has been imported, and deal with it later :-)
Dear Sam, Your enthusiasm and energy for OpenStreetMap in general, and for recreational trails in particular appear to be boundless. It may be that you are, in fact, a renewable energy resource. I'm glad that you are participating in OpenStreetMap. Please don't interpret my concerns about licensing as any sort of authority. There is no requirement for "rw approval" and I claim no more authority than any other contributor to OpenStreetMap. It's not about me. It is my preference and recommendation that any contact with any database publisher be passed through the OSM Foundation for approval of any license. That is a burden of additional work for the Foundation which is why I also recommend that the contributors in contact with the publisher try to do as much of the up front work as possible and provide links, and a summary. That is the process that I have observed in earlier successful arrangements to include data from other sources in OpenStreetMap. A nice, simplifying exception exists when data is published under a license compatible with the current OSM license CCBYSA and the proposed future OSM license ODbL. Once a list of those compatible licenses exists, and publishers adopt those licenses, things will be much easier for OSM contributors to accept data. Right now, the data licenses that are automatically always okay for inclusion in OpenStreetMap are: US Gov't Public Domain. Public Domain - only available at the expiry of copyright period in most jurisdictions PDDL - http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/summary/ CCzero - http://creativecommons.org/about/cc0 During the transition period, even CCBYSA, and ODbL are not "automatic" because both licenses should be accepted by the donor. No point in accepting data today that may have to be removed for the transition. Dear Matt, Very good to meet you in your official capacity! With your support and enthusiasm, I expect that OSM will find a way to dot all of the Is and cross all of the Ts with gov.yk.ca I'll reply to you off-list as well. Best regards to all , Richard _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
