[OSM-legal-talk] Community Guidelines (was Re: Attribution)

[Michael Collinson]

On 28/04/2014 23:27, Mikel wrote:
>> Further I note there was 0 (zero) response to the proposed updated community guidelines that
>> >go a long way in clarifying a number of the grey areas, indicating that the whole upset is not
>> >about fixing real issues.
> Simon, first i've heard about this. Can you point to where it's posted please, and also, explain the process by which they were created, proposed, and approved? Thanks

Mikel and all,

Here is one of the emails:

https://www.mail-archive.com/talk@openstreetmap.org/msg49397.html

And the process and main page are here:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Community_Guidelines/How_We_Create_Community_Guidelines
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Community_Guidelines

We'd like to get some closure on some of the longer lived items as well 
as better publicise the whole process, so I am about to go to the main 
list.  Any discussion or input however small in the rather calmer waters 
of this list first is greatly welcome.  The more polished the guidelines 
are, the better.

We also have a number of issues that are very immature in terms of 
constructing a useful guideline.  What we have been lacking, with some 
notable exceptions, is data users prepared to give a real use case that 
they can share in a reasonable level of detail.  Being able to deal with 
concrete rather than myriad hypothetical cases makes progress much 
faster. If you are user or potential user of OSM data, do share 
real-world issues here. Or, contact us at legal at osmfoundation.org. We 
can handle commercial-in-confidence provided that the end result is 
shareable publicly and applies to all equally within the parameters of 
our license.

Mike
License Working Group