[talk-au] Contacting non-responders in AU?

[James Andrewartha]

On 14 February 2012 09:48, Ian Sergeant <inas66 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nearmap have made a fairly clear statement on the matter:  Ben Last from
> Nearmap said on this list on Jun 15
>
> ... edits submitted before the 17th of June 2011 under CC-BY-SA (i.e., by
> someone who hadn't accepted the new CTs at the time of submission) *or*
> ODbL/whatever (by someone who had accepted the CTs at the time of
> submission) to stay in the database. For the Australian mappers in
> particular, this means that there need be no mass deletion of existing data
> based on tracing from nearmap.com PhotoMaps. It also means that nearmap.com
> PhotoMaps can't be used after the 17th of June as a basis for tracing data
> to submit to OSM ...
>
> So, if you have some other reason to decline, by all means do so.  But I
> think the Nearmap issue is clearly resolved.

I have to disagree with that intepretation - the actualy wording is:
"All such additions or edits submitted to OSM prior to 17 June 2011 may be
held and continue to be used by OSM under the terms in place between OSM and
the individual which submitted the addition or edit at the relevant time."

I've never agreed to the CTs, so my contributions are under CC-BY-SA.
So OSM is free to keep using them under those terms, but they're
choosing to remove them from the database. Had I signed the CTs and
then started contributing based on Nearmap (prior to 17 Jun 2011),
then my edits would be ODbL compatible and would remain after the
purge. I have no idea what OSM is going to do about people who agreed
to the CTs and contributed based on Nearmap before and after agreeing
to them - remove their edits from before they signed? I think Ben's
explanatory paragraph is just about whether edits from CT-agreeers
needed to be immediately removed due to license violation, as
previously it wasn't clear whether you could sign the CTs and still
use Nearmap (which is why I never signed them).

James Andrewartha