[OSM-talk] Lithuanian revert

Peter Miller peter.miller at itoworld.com
Thu Mar 19 06:54:17 GMT 2009


On 19 Mar 2009, at 03:07, OSM Foundation Admin wrote:
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> The Data Working Group (formerly called the Vandalism Working Group)  
> has been investigating a possible data copyright infringement in  
> Lithuania. As a result of this investigation it has been decided by  
> the group to block a number of accounts and to delete data relating  
> to these accounts. The original allegation was raised on the talk  
> mailing list http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2008-August/001077.html 
>  which resulted in some initial communication with the parties  
> concerned. Specifically the user Pranas was not able to provide an  
> acceptable response with respect to the origin of the data entered  
> into OpenStreetMap and this persons account was temporarily  
> suspended for further investigation. At the same time we believe  
> that this user and or other users in the area registered multiple  
> new OpenStreetMap usernames over a short period of a few hours, this  
> further raised concerns.
>
> The process, which is now complete, has been to shut all of these  
> accounts and remove all the data belonging to them, this will result  
> in the rollback of some data and the loss of some data due to later  
> edits, this is unavoidable but regrettable.
>
Can I thank the foundation team for rising to this difficult and  
important task of protecting the value of our collective work by  
following up a potential copyright infringement. It is a key essential  
role for the foundation but one that must be very time consuming in  
practice.



Regards,


Peter

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