[OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] License Change View on OSM Inspector

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 12/13/2011 10:52 PM, Nathan Edgars II wrote:
> We're not talking about crimes here, but about copyright status.

No. The only thing I was talking about was that if you should have the 
audacity to publicly proclaim "loopholes" in the process and that you 
intend to use them, I will block your account.

In my eyes, the license change does not have to be 100% perfect. If we 
apply diligence, and are seen to apply diligence, and still a few 
copyrightable bits and pieces slip through our hands and end up in the 
new database even though their authors didn't want that, then that's not 
too bad - we can fix that when someone complains. As long as we try hard 
to do the right thing, that's good enough in my eyes.

However if someone blares on the lists about having found a loophole, 
and planning to use it, and we stand idly by, that's certainly not 
"trying hard to do the right thing".

And that's why it is a hell of a difference if *you* copy tags from a 
non-agreer node to a new way in the future, or of someone else does it.

Bye
Frederik

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