On 19 Mar 2009, at 03:07, OSM Foundation Admin wrote:
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The Data Working Group (formerly called the Vandalism Working Group)
has been investigating a possible data copyright infringement in
Lithuania. As a result of this investigation it has been decided by
the group to block a number of accounts and to delete data relating
to these accounts. The original allegation was raised on the talk
mailing list http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2008-August/001077.html
which resulted in some initial communication with the parties
concerned. Specifically the user Pranas was not able to provide an
acceptable response with respect to the origin of the data entered
into OpenStreetMap and this persons account was temporarily
suspended for further investigation. At the same time we believe
that this user and or other users in the area registered multiple
new OpenStreetMap usernames over a short period of a few hours, this
further raised concerns.
The process, which is now complete, has been to shut all of these
accounts and remove all the data belonging to them, this will result
in the rollback of some data and the loss of some data due to later
edits, this is unavoidable but regrettable.
Can I thank the foundation team for rising to this difficult and
important task of protecting the value of our collective work by
following up a potential copyright infringement. It is a key essential
role for the foundation but one that must be very time consuming in
practice.
Regards,
Peter
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