[OSM-talk] (dis)Honesty and Copyright

[Peteris Krisjanis]

O , 2012-05-29 11:50 +0200, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen
rakstīja:
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> I am really astonished about the way some users on this list
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> react to a claim to respect  (my and CC-by-SA) copyright .
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Hi Gert!

First, keep tone civil and you won't get nasty replies as before :)
And maybe recognize that OSM as in this list isn't organization, it's
community, where people's thoughts differ on subjects now and then.

What matters here that leadership agrees that deniers copyrights must be
respected and their data removed when map will be published under ODbL

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> The whole business of changeing license IS about copyright.
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> If there is only a single grain of non-respect to copyright in your
> heads
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> (those that are addressed, do know who I mean),
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> why bother supporting a license change then that is about
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> respect on copyright ????  Everything up and running up in your heads?

I would disagree here. We have group of people who work on copyright
violations and so far it has been very effective. Existence of such
infrastructure means that project is serious about respecting copyrights
(and more serious than some big corporations).

Some people responded harshly because of your tone. Yeah, data is still
there, but license change hasn't actually happened yet.

> If TomTom or Nokia (just to mention a few major players) 
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> will find proof of the slightest infraction (well ok, a bit more then
> that)
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> of copyrights,  in OSM’s database
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> they will publish that at a future moment  that suits them best….

Then they would have to prove it (and inform OSM about it). That would
be rather hard and knowing legalities of implicating someone's guilt,
their lawyers would definitely suggest to avoid that without smoking
gun.

Respectfully,
Peteris Krisjanis,
OSM Latvia