[OSM-legal-talk] license change effect on un-tagged nodes

John Smith deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com
Sat Jul 2 17:23:14 BST 2011


On 3 July 2011 02:15, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   suppose there's a node that has been created by user A with no tags on it.
> Suppose the node has later been moved by user B. A has not accepted the CT,
> while B has.
>
> Will the node have to be removed when we go to phase 5 of the license
> change?
>
> You could say: yes, because version 2 is clearly a derived work of version
> 1.
>
> You could also say: no, because the information "added" in version 2 (new
> coordinates) overwrites all information that was there from version 1, so
> there is nothing left to be "protected".
>
> Opinions?

I'm guessing, but I feel your simple example above would only hold
true for unattached nodes.



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