[OSM-talk] OSM relation ID property in Wikidata

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 03.05.2013 23:18, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
> I don't understand -- wasn't the entire process based on the
> assumption that intellectual property persists as long as the object
> ID persists?

No, that is a misconception. During the license change we deviated from 
that idea in both directions:

* some objects whose ID had not changed and who had been created by 
someone who rejected the license were nonetheless kept if it could be 
shown that they had been changed in a major way since;

* some objects that had been freshly created by people agreeing with the 
license change, but that were more or less copies of other objects from 
non-agreers, were removed even though they had a different ID.

I will not discuss this sub-thread further; object IDs are not stable 
and nothing we did during the license change is suitable as a counter 
argument.

Bye
Frederik

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