[OSM-legal-talk] A license bot that has produced too many errors

Maarten Deen mdeen at xs4all.nl
Wed Jul 18 06:54:57 BST 2012


On 2012-07-17 13:01, FK270673 at fantasymail.de wrote:
> The detrimental license bot now has reached Germany and promptly left
> a lot of errors here.
>
> Let's just look at one city, Göttingen in Northern Germany, where I
> have contacted some undecided users, so I have some knowledge about
> pre-bot history.
>
> There are so many errors with severe legal implications, so I would
> like to publish them on the legal-talk list. Their manipulated 
> history
> is such a heavy infringement of Creative Commons license that even an
> agreer could easily sue the OSMF if he was willing to waste time and
> money on a senseless trial. Let me show the examples:
>
> - agreeing mapper's node disappeared
> http://osm.mapki.com/history/node.php?id=60580009

Is there a way for normal users to check the correctness of the bot? 
For this node, the history on [1] is not really helpful. It just says 
that versions 1-3 are blocked after redaction. How am I to check that 
that is correct?

[1] <http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/60580009/history>

Regards,
Maarten




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