[OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Progressing OSM to a new data Licence regime

SteveC steve at asklater.com
Mon Feb 4 13:47:44 GMT 2008


On 4 Feb 2008, at 13:46, David Earl wrote:
>>> how do we avoid the situation where e.g. someone who disagrees the  
>>> new license has run a bot over all of Cambridge to tweak things  
>>> (as has indeed
>>> happened to many of the ways) or who has 'tidied up' bits of my  
>>> mapping so all my surveying is now labelled with their name. Does  
>>> all of my mapping of Cambridge get deleted because someone has  
>>> later modified my work in a trivial way? (Conversely, can I just  
>>> select a big area, and add a new tag to transfer the data to my  
>>> name and cause someone who doesn't agree the new license to be  
>>> retained?)
>> It would have to be a clean chain of all editors agreeing, and the  
>> last timewise editor to disagree is the edit (and those thereafter)  
>> that would be thrown away.
>
> This sounds like a nightmare: I could lose weeks of work because  
> someone who fails to reply played with Potlatch once for a few  
> minutes and then vanished.

You have a better idea? :-)

Ultimately, I think if we get consensus the vast majority of people  
will be happy to switch.

have fun,

SteveC | steve at asklater.com | http://www.asklater.com/steve/






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