<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 1, 2009, at 6:37 PM, Simon Ward wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 11:30:41AM -0500, Russ Nelson wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Creative Commons license (by-sa). or under the ODbL. If you choose not to <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">give us your email address, or your email address stops working, you <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">waive all right to ownership of your edits.<br></blockquote><br>This needs a safeguard to allow for email addresses temporarily not<br>working. I’m not even sure this is the right thing to do anyway. It’s<br>far safer getting rid of a user’s data than it is assuming ownership of<br>it.<br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Why? If the owner of the data ever shows up, they can 1) agree to any changes in the license, or 2) ask to have their data removed. I don't see much value in removing the data now on the chance that we might have to remove it later.</div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>--<br>Russ Nelson - <a href="http://community.cloudmade.com/blog">http://community.cloudmade.com/blog</a> - <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RussNelson">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RussNelson</a><br><a href="mailto:russ@cloudmade.com">russ@cloudmade.com</a> - <a href="http://openstreetmap.org/user/RussNelson">http://openstreetmap.org/user/RussNelson</a></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>