[OSM-talk] OSM : It's a shame !!!

[Thomas Davie]

Hi Gert,

First, I'd like to make a semantic point – you were not banned from OSM for not signing up to the CTs, you are still welcome to contribute, as long as you contribute in a way that's compatible with the new license.

More importantly though, what's happened here is absolutely reprehensible.  They've violated your copyright, and endangered the whole project.  Do you have a link to the changeset in which your data has been copied?  I'm sure people will be more than willing to revert the change, and construct data from the sources we can use.

Thanks

Tom Davie

On 28 May 2012, at 20:42, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen wrote:

> After having been banned from OSM for not signing the CT, my contributions, that have been well received by the community in the past have been removed by the april 1st license shift.
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> The Foundation has called anyone in the community to reduce lost by remapping the concerned areas.
>  
> However,  it was not meant that the data were simply to be copied, deleted and re-pasted into  the map using a fake account.
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> This seems to be the case however, where my contributions were shamelessly copied and pasted back into the map.
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> Of course I kept a dump from before april 1st where my name is linked to a number of roads in a specific area showing I denied the CT.
> And if I download the same area in OSM of today I find that this area has NOT been changed for a fraction of an inch.
> The old and new area projected on different layers in JOSM fit exactly on each other, even at the highest magnification available (15 cm = 1 inch on screen)
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> The user involved is called “ It’s so funny”   and I believe that fake account with obfuscated characters was not chosen for nothing, because it cannot be retrieved in OSM, at least not using JOSM “Show info” , and osm.org does not provide a contact info (otherwise I would have contacted this user first).
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> However, it means that the current copy of the OSM database is not ODBL compliant anymore because parts of it remain clearly CC-by-SA , and these areas are plain copies of the work I carried out.
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> This is sooo low…..     OSM, how low can you get !
> Providing all the tools to check for ODBL compatibility and
> accepting copy and paste just like that by any stupid looser contributor.
>  
> Why is there no tool for checking on copy paste copyright infringement…
> Because no-one meant to check on that ?
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> user: cetest
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> Gert Gremmen
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