[OSM-legal-talk] Someone already had a look at theBing TermsofUse?

[Frederik Ramm]

Steve,

On 12/23/10 01:57, Steve Bennett wrote:
>> That's another area wide open to discussion; my interpretation of "I
>> consider my contributions PD" has always been: "I don't claim any rights in
>> what I contribute." - not: "I vouch for nobody holding any rights in what I
>> contribute." (The latter position would not allow me to delete and re-upload
>> an object that has been edited by someone under CC-BY-SA, something which I
>> sometimes do e.g. if a relation has 1000 versions or so.)
>
> Just curiosity here, but you're saying you intentionally delete the
> history of objects?

No, you cannot delete the history of an object from the database through 
the API.

> Doesn't that breach the "BY" part of CC-BY-SA?

I usually put a "note=created from relation xyz" or so on the new 
object, so anyone who wants to make the connection to the previous 
object and its history, can still find out - it's just not possible 
*automatically* anymore. But then this whole thing is a damage limiting 
exercise that I do when the API times out on retrieving the history (a 
1000-object relation with 1000 members as a *very large* history), so 
it's not that I'm making anything worse ;)

Bye
Frederik