[OSM-legal-talk] feedback requested

[Dermot McNally]

On 25 December 2011 21:05, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 13:48:24 +0000

>> 4. Well-meaning new (therefore agreeing) mapper sees the node, notices
>> the cuisine tag in the history and reapplies it without having
>> personal knowledge to back this up. odbl=clean is still set.
>
> To me, this is on par with "well-meaning new mapper copies data from
> Google believing it is ok". It is something where we have to make a
> good effort to explain to people that they shouldn't do it, and if it
> turns out somebody has misunderstood, or made a mistake, then we have
> to fix that.
>
> I don't see *many* people using history to look for extra features to
> re-animate.

OK, that's fine by me - I like that answer, because it allows us to
respect odbl=clean in all cases. I also agree that anybody rummaging
in the history for lost tags can be expected to know better than to
re-animate tainted tags.

Dermot

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