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

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

John Smith wrote:
> 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?

Nothing. But assuming good faith is not something new; we do that now 
with respect to other data sources. If someone were to flag something as 
clean that isn't and he's found out, we would have to do exactly what we 
do if we find that someone has been copying from Google etc.

Actually I think there's no way around some sort of good-faith-assuming, 
community-involving process here because there will always be corner 
cases that cannot be determined algorithmically and that have to be 
investigated by a human being.

We will need to create set of workable guidelines for our community 
members to exercise judgement but there will always be an element of 
judgement.

Bye
Frederik

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