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

[M∡rtin Koppenhoefer]

2011/7/2 Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>:
> 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?


IMHO the node position is never a derived work when it is updated. So
for the case of the untagged node (if isolated an not part of a way,
i.e. unlikely) we could keep the whole object.

cheers,
Martin