[OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

[Frederik Ramm]

Anthony,

Anthony wrote:
> I don't trust the OSMF to properly remove
> all of my work and derivatives of my work if/when they stop releasing
> those derivatives under CC-BY-SA.  

In December last year we had a guy also called Anthony on legal-talk who 
said:

> I live in the United States, where
> factual databases are public domain, and while I have no problem with OSM
> using my contributions in any way whatsoever, I do have a problem with
> agreeing to a contract limiting my rights to use the OSM database.

If that was you back then: Why should you request OSMF to "properly 
remove all of your work" when at the same time you "have no problem with 
OSM using my contributions in any way whatsoever"?

If you really consider your contributions to be in the public domain 
then good news for you: we do not require your agreeing to any contract.

> I'm currently working on a fork.

Still, or again? As far as I remember you were working on a fork in 2009 
as well.

> I think that's the most productive
> work I can do with OSM at the moment.  Unfortunately I don't have the
> resources right now for a public fork, so unless/until someone with
> such resources (*) does step up, my work is going to be mostly
> private.

Maybe you could re-use the server previously used for your complete 
Wikipedia fork,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Mno#The_Mcfly_Network

Alternatively, you could perhaps contribute to CommonMap 
(commonmap.info) who are not a fork of OSM but "acknowledge OSM as 
inspiration" and are not planning to use ODbL as far as I can see.

Bye
Frederik