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

Heiko Jacobs heiko.jacobs at gmx.de
Wed Jun 15 23:24:39 BST 2011


Am 14.06.2011 22:33, schrieb Michael Collinson:
> I would emphasise there is currently no need to remove data from
 > the live database since the license is still CC-BY-SA.
> I believe there is no urgency to do so until acceptances
> have been maximised, local issues that have a near term solution
> have been addressed and there is a sense of community consensus
> that it is time. The License Working Group will
> continue listening to all feedback.

There are a lot of open questions that have to be solved BEFORE
any official licence change or "private" cleaning up the data ...

- version history is incomplete: ways, which were splitted or joined,
   have lost parts of version history including mappers, that don't acceppted

- what's about deleted objects?
   If a mapper, who don't accepted, for example has deleted a POI
   and mapped a building with similar tags, the building has to be
   deleted, but also the POI has to be restored?!
   So changesets may have to be verified for such things ...

- Might be that it is not necessary to delete trivial edits
   (Might be "trivial" depends on the country of the edit ...)

- ... and surely a mapper may decide to accept lately ...

- ...

So a "private clean-up" befor this questions are solved might
- delete objects where it is not necessary (trivial, change decision)
- not delete objects where it is necessary (splitted/joined ways
   which where partially mapped of non accepting mappers)
- violate copyright, if he "copy" the old object
- ...

Heiko




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