Oh, I'm sorry. My intention wasn't to cause upset. Looks like I don't actually understand licenses or copyrights so well. I'll be more careful in the future.<br>
<br> - Kari<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/11/20 Richard Fairhurst <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard@systemed.net" target="_blank">richard@systemed.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div><blockquote type="cite"><pre><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;"></span></font></pre></blockquote><div>Kari Pihkala wrote:</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><pre><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;">Even if someone says that his data is in PD, it doesn't mean anything once
uploaded to <a href="http://openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">openstreetmap.org</a>. I could as well claim that my data is in GPL
or CC-BY-SA-non-commercial. It doesn't change the license of the data sent
to the server. I wonder if all these people[1] have realised that.</span></font></pre></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Hogwash.</div><div><br></div><div>Firstly, who supposedly owns these additional rights over and above the individual contributions (which are (c) you, the contributor - no-one disputes that [1]) which would prevent you from extracting and reusing your own unaltered, untransformed [2] data? </div>
<div><br></div><div>Secondly, even supposing such a person existed - which they don't - are they ever going to successfully sue to prevent you using your own unaltered data? Come on, think. The case would be laughed out of court.</div>
<div><br></div><div>As the first of "all these people" I know quite well what I'm doing, thank you, and vague threats about "all your data are belong to us" don't really impress me too much.</div>
<div><br></div><div>cheers</div><div>Richard</div><div><br></div><div>[1] Insofar as any copyright protection (or neighbouring rights) applies anyway.</div><div>[2] Well, "unaltered" except for "assigned a sequential ID by the server". I think you'd have a hard time proving that a sequential ID merited any form of copyright protection. Unless someone patented ordinal numbers while I wasn't looking.</div>
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