[Talk-ca] Ping John Whelan?

[Bégin, Daniel]

John wrote: ...  I do not want to take the responsibility that OSM in its wisdom will change the license yet again to something that is not acceptable to CANVEC.
 
John, what do you mean? What could happen that would make you responsible of a change in the licence?
 
Daniel



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From: john whelan [mailto:jwhelan0112 at gmail.com] 
Sent: June 6, 2011 16:17
To: Richard Weait
Cc: Talk-CA OpenStreetMap
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Ping John Whelan?


Acting on your advice I accepted the new CT.  On looking more deeply into the subject I note that I have retrospectively allowed OSM to license anything I have ever added to the map in any way they wish.  Currently it is odbl but the CT allows anything, the license seems to be an ever changing document.

Looking at my data I have a couple of footpaths that were entered from a GPS track and one or two other items these I'm happy to have under the new CT but very little else.

I find it is not possible to retract my acceptance.

I have made three separate inquiries on how to get all my edits removed but all have been ignored.


So I can see no other option than to remove them all manually.  


If someone else wishes to do an import from CANVEC most can be replaced quite quickly, however I do not want to take the responsibility that OSM in its wisdom will change the license yet again to something that is not acceptable to CANVEC.

I also note that according to Fredrick some mappers have already been deleting entries for people who have not accepted the CT so it seemed to be an appropriate time to start deleting.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Cheerio John


On 6 June 2011 15:28, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:


	Dear John,
	
	Your edit today http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/8355694
	deleted thousands of nodes and ways, with a comment of "bixi
	bike_rental" but in fact deleted large portions of Leslie park.
	http://www.openstreetmap.org/?minlon=-75.8392303&minlat=45.3141652&maxlon=-75.7587115&maxlat=45.3763387&box=yes
	
	You seem to have accidentally made the same mistake yesterday, with
	http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/8355396 and several
	other changesets which delete thousands of nodes and ways, removing
	large portions of the map in Lincoln heights,  Bel-air hieghts,
	Ottawa, etc.
	
	What's going on, John?
	
	http://www.openstreetmap.org/?minlon=-75.7155206&minlat=45.3971371&maxlon=-75.6772372&maxlat=45.4266653&box=yes
	http://www.openstreetmap.org/?minlon=-75.7155206&minlat=45.3971371&maxlon=-75.6772372&maxlat=45.4266653&box=yes
	http://www.openstreetmap.org/?minlon=-75.7847794&minlat=45.338809&maxlon=-75.705353&maxlat=45.3970339&box=yes
	http://www.openstreetmap.org/?minlon=-75.8392303&minlat=45.3141652&maxlon=-75.7587115&maxlat=45.3763387&box=yes
	


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