[OSM-talk] Announce: Beginning of Phase 4 of license change process

[Josh Doe]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> [1] I suspect that when obvious bot edits are stripped out, the figure will
> be a lot higher, especially in America. Certainly, looking around my local
> area, the only significant "non-relicensable" objects are ways edited by
> someone who has made a trivial tag search-and-replace, which can easily be
> reverted without adverse effect on the data.

Perhaps it is trivial, but I have yet to hear of anyone working on a
script or even pseudocode as to how the "cleanup" will be performed.
Especially one that intelligently handles these simple tag changes,
way splits, merges, etc. What's mentioned on the wiki is a "dumb"
method which simply deletes all objects created by non-acceptors, or
reverts to the last version before being changed by a non-acceptor.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Backup_Plan

Seems like an important item to address IMHO.
-Josh