[OSM-talk] The long tail
Tom Carden
tom at tom-carden.co.uk
Thu Jul 6 17:39:35 BST 2006
On 06/07/06, Thomas Walraet <thomas at walraet.com> wrote:
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> I can understand a "please don't distribute it widely at the moment".
> But if someone here ask a real NDA for data under a CC license, I
> strongly understand Imi's talking about « differences in the
> understanding of "free" » :)
>
There is data in the OSM database that is arguably not under the CC
license. Change information for example, is something
openstreetmap.org collects. It is not created by contributors.
Arguably. IANAL.
I would add to David's suggestion that not only might the police look
at speed information from tracklogs, but that they might look at
location information and pull you in for questioning *whether innocent
or not* if you happened to be near the scene of a serious crime or
terrorist incident. For example. I don't think this is fantasy... at
random it would be extremely unlikely, but what if a nasty crime had
occurred on the IoW the weekend we were there, or if someone had been
run-over by a car behaving erratically with a photographer hanging out
of the window on a Manchester housing estate? Just thinking
outloud... but traces and nodes/lines are different issues anyway.
I think the two-line click-through agreement is too risky to rely on
even for distributing map data, and given that Steve's legal advice
agrees with me I'm sorry but people will have to wait for the
foundation and a proper privacy policy (and a potential re-licensing)
for this to be resolved.
Tom.
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