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

[John Smith]

On 6 July 2011 07:37, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Now if the mapper comes along and sees the river flagged for deletion, and
> remembers that he traveled the river in a boat, and maybe even has the GPX
> track, there's nothing to keep him from simply overriding the standard
> assumption of "we will have to delete this river". We don't yet have a
> mechanism for that; currently the mapper would have to delete and re-create
> the river but personally I am in favour of a special, temporary license
> override tag that people could add to an object, something like
> "i_have_personally_investigated_the_history_of_this_object_and_i_can_vouch_for_it_being_odbl_clean=true".

In both cases, either tagging something as clean or deleting and
re-adding assumes good faith, we already know people copy data from
incompatible sources, what's to stop someone simple cutting and
pasting data or mass tagging ways as clean?