Stop this nonsense. OSM is about mapping, not about enforcement of licenses. Take your GPS and go outside. Or do some useful mapping or japan of libya. Stop hustling the community about this kind of trivialities. We are NOT commercial, and there is no money involved !! Nothing to lose but our time!
Hall of Shame : Gert Gremmen -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Michael Collinson [mailto:[email protected]] Verzonden: zondag 20 maart 2011 18:49 Aan: OSM talk Onderwerp: [OSM-talk] A reliable process for handling OSM license violations There are now at least 1 to 2 reports every month of folks not giving us proper CC-BY-SA attribution. These are mostly websites but include poster advertising, a TV advertisement and a TV show. We need a reliable process for dealing with these. Currently, the License Working Group has been doing some work but it feels that it is not dealing with the issues adequately and some issues not at all. What should we do? Here's a run down of what happens at the moment: - At the very minimum, there should be a public record of alleged violations to show that these things do not pass un-noticed and to provide a central point for collating frequency and the nature of the problem. So far, if the LWG hears a report, we document the basics in a "Hall of Shame" section of our weekly meeting minutes, http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Working_Group_Minutes - A member of the OSMF board or LWG takes up the particular issue. This depends very much on personal enthusiasm. It requires initial tact - most instances are neglect/cannot be bothered rather than purely wilful. It requires persistance and follow-up, - we generally get an "oh we will fix it immediately" ... and then they don't. It requires careful coordination within the OSM/OSMF community to provide a united front. It may require research - for example, how exactly should a TV ad provide a CC-BY-SA attribution? And lastly, future cases may involve bumping up to formal legal help and legal action. Not easy for one person to do. Mike OSM Foundation License Working Group _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
