[OSM-legal-talk] (Not) "Removing" data

[Heiko Jacobs]

Michael Collinson schrieb:
> One question, I think from Liz, was "who decided to remove data".

As starter of the thread "decision removing data" I claim to be
the copyright holder of this question!!!!1
I thougt it might be an easy question, so without copyright.
But it seems to be a very complicate question, because no answer yet,
so the question may have some creativity in it, so it is copyrighted ;-)

 > That got me thinking as there was never any explicit decision point.

I hope that this is not true ...

> If someone does not accept the new license, (I am really thinking of 
> folks who never respond) and we have reasonable made efforts to reach 
> them, are we really obligated to remove their data from the ODbL live 
> database unless they exert their original copyright and request us to do 
> so?  A common mantra is that copyright does not mean much unless 
> exerted. Views? Precedents?

I'm still dreaming of a process without any loss of data and without
any fork like Wikipedia and others had it ... Yes, their old licences
seem to be easyer for this goal ...

Mueck