[OSM-legal-talk] feedback requested

[Ed Avis]

 <mike at ...> writes:

>2) good faith - are we making a reasonable effort to remove the IP of  
>folks who have not given us permission to continue? I certainly agree  
>with Ed that we should treat ex-contributors no differently to any IP  
>owner ... but feel we are already doing that in this and other  
>conversations.

Mike, in that case I would ask you to apply the 'Google Maps test'.  If some
map data were entered by copying from a third party who did not give permission,
but then edited in good faith, how much of the data needs to be unpicked?
In the past OSMF has taken a very cautious approach to this, which I believe
is the right one.

If after careful consideration you do formulate a policy ('the LWG declares that
creating a node is not a creative operation, so it can be kept as long as it has
been moved by somebody else afterwards', or whatever you decide), then it should
also be applied to such third-party-copyright situations going forward.

Originally it was promised that no big deletion would go ahead if it would cause
too much damage to the OSM data.  Is that still the case and if so who is tasked
with deciding whether to pull the switch?

-- 
Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>