Hey Mateusz, thanks for this question and sorry that none of the times I offered fit your schedule!
I’ll start by suggesting that one of your assumptions is not accurate. Weak license enforcement is bad for large organizations like my employer, Facebook. We prefer clear rules and the legal team here is pleased to see that the LWG is moving forward with more explicit, assertive communication about the license and its requirements. It will allow us to act with confidence and clarity. I won't say more about this because people are actively working on the new attribution proposal. To answer your direct question, I’ll handle a conflict of interest the same way as any other board member. UK law requires that I seek authorization from the other directors to participate in situations where I have a conflict, and recuse myself if not. Rory McCann is in a similar situation and points out in his message that explicit rules such as those governing conflicts make it easier for everyone to comply. (https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2019-December/006449.html) I’ll also reference Mikel’s observation that the interests of OSMF (and therefore their possible conflicts with any individual board member's interest) are very much a question that this current election is seeking to answer. Starting tomorrow and over the next week, the voting membership of the OSMF will determine what the foundation’s interests *are*. Speaking for myself, I am running to promote a high quality free map with equal coverage around the world, the heart of my interest in OpenStreetMap since 2006. -mike. ---------------------------------------------------------------- michal migurski- contact info and pgp key: sf/ca http://mike.teczno.com/contact.html > On Dec 6, 2019, at 2:56 AM, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoni...@tutanota.com> wrote: > > > > > 3 Dec 2019, 20:05 by m...@teczno.com: > Hi everyone, > > I’m one of the twelve candidates running for OSMF board. > It seems that none of video calls times matches my time, so hopefully it is > OK to ask here. > > How you plan to handle an obvious conflict of interest due to your FB > employment? > > For example in topic of enforcing ODBL licence? It is interest of FB to keep > all enforcement of > OSM license extremely weak, so even recusing yourself from all FB-related > issues would not > be sufficient. > > Note that ODBL licence requires notice reasonably calculated to make any > Person that uses, > views, or is otherwise exposed to the Produced Work aware that Content was > obtained from > the Database and that it is available under this License. > > IANAL, but it seems to me that current attribution hiding used by FB is not > enough to fulfill this > requirement and that they are currently using OSM data illegally. > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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