Licensing Working Group/Minutes/2023-12-11

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OpenStreetMap Foundation, Licensing Working Group (LWG) - Agenda & Minutes
11 December 2023, 18:00 UTC

Participants

  • Kathleen Lu (Chairing)
  • Guillaume Rischard (OSMF board)
  • Tom Hummel
  • Tom Lee

Absent

  • Dermot McNally
  • Jim Vidano
  • Simon Hughes

Administrative

Adoption of past minutes

Previous action items

  • 2018-03-08 All to look at the Working Groups collecting personal information.
  • 2018-04-12 LWG to follow-up on the iD editor, as the number of changesets is now included on the changeset comments thread.
  • 2020-10-08 Simon Poole and Guillaume Rischard to look at the translation issue of the copyright policy page
  • 2020-10-08 Jim Vidano to work on updating the privacy policy in relation to OSMF's use of a commercial CDN, and Kathleen Lu will have a look at it.
  • 2021-02-11 Kathleen Lu to check LWG-specific membership requirements on the OSMF website and Conflict of Interest policy and provide to Dorothea any updates for the website.
  • 2021-03-11 Guillaume Rischard to sort out various email issues - Making sure Dermot McNally is on the main legal mailing issue, making sure everyone is getting OTRS email notifications for the legal queue.
  • 2021-07-08 Guillaume Rischard to meet with Dermot McNally about using OTRS.
  • 2021-07-08 LWG members to provide comment on the HOT draft trademark agreement on the next meeting.
  • 2021-07-08 Jim Vidano to look at next steps for Opensnowmap.org paperwork after the trademark request has been approved by the board.
  • 2021-07-08 Dermot McNally to ask Tobias for expected outcome regarding the request for change of the text of the standard tile license.
  • 2021-08-12 Tom Hummel to suggest text to be published regarding OSMF's legitimate interest in processing personal data.
  • 2021-08-12 Dermot McNally to reply to Tobias about simplifying the text of the tile licence.
  • 2021-08-12 Dermot McNally to make the pull request on GitHub openstreemap-website regarding attribution requirements for OSMF tiles
  • 2021-08-12 Dermot McNally to communicate back to contacts regarding Australian data attribution and suggest filling the waiver template.
  • 2021-08-12 LWG to identify OSMF legal texts that might be needed under German law to be in German.
  • 2021-09-09 Jim Vidano to ask Simon Poole whether he has previous emails contacting companies that were not displaying attribution.
  • 2021-09-09 Guillaume Rischard to check past emails (e.g. last year ones related to case in Germany where they settled in court) for any sent to companies not complying with attribution requirements and to send what he finds, including links to the GitHub repositories with the lists of not complying organisations, to the Signal group.
  • 2021-09-09 Jim Vidano and Dermot McNally (2021-12-09) to create a draft template email for the community to contact organisations regarding non compliance with the attribution guidelines
  • 2021-09-09 Dermot McNally to reply to Jean-Marc Liotier (board of directors) with the LWG decision to create a template email for minor cases of non-compliance with the attribution guidelines available to the community and the LWG to directly contact bigger companies.
  • 2022-01-13 Simon Hughes to download a copy of the Copyright FAQ page and mark anything that is not matching the attribution guidelines or is confusing and circulate that to the LWG.
  • 2022-04-14 Guillaume Rischard to ask Tom Hughes to see how many translations of the Copyright and Copyright FAQ page are live. Topic Needed: Update to Copyright FAQ page to match new attribution guidelines
  • 2022-09-15 Dermot McNally to send an email to the companies mentioned on Ticket#2022011910000082 and Ticket#202201261000014
  • 2022-09-15 Guillaume Rischard to respond to the email Ticket#202208041000024 and redirect to the right person.
  • 2022-10-13 Guillaume Rischard to take the Ticket#2022100310000013 issue to the board (related to legal consequences for “unlicensed surveying”)
  • 2022-11-10 Guillaume Rischard to ask someone else on the Philippines community regarding proof of the use of OSMF trademarks there.
  • 2022-11-10 Guillaume Rischard to pass the message to the board member who wrote to the LWG about Open Database License (ODbL).
  • 2023-03-06 Kathleen Lu to write back to Iiro Laiho (Inquiry re Finnish satellite imagery) and have them clarify that the attribution is ok. The LWG to update the attribution.
  • 2023-04-03 Guillaume Rischard to ask Grant Slater regarding passing LWG tickets to OWG.
  • 2023-04-03 Dermot McNally to find wording that makes it clear to the recipients of the love letters that the letters come from mappers.
  • 2023-04-03 Guillaume Rischard to send the Attribution Guidelines (Case of German Federal Mapping Agency buried attribution)
  • 2023-04-03 Tom Lee to reply to the OSM Serbia community on GitHub asking for additional details (Ticket#2023030810000178 - Serbian Geodata)
  • 2023-04-03 Dermot McNally to put Benito Romualdo Palma Temoaya in touch with the Mexican community (Ticket#2023032410000272 – Asesoría)
  • 2023-05-15 Dermot McNally to write a template reply for emails we receive regarding missing attribution and send it to Kathleen.
  • 2023-05-15 Kathleen Lu to create an OTRS template with Dermot’s template reply regarding missing attribution.
  • 2023-05-15 Simon Hughes' trademark person to draft a physical merchandise template. Existing templates on domain names and State of the Map conference can be used.
  • 2023-05-15 Kathleen Lu to write to the person that contacted the LWG regarding OSM merchandise that the Board is considering the issue.
  • 2023-06-12 Guillaume Rischard  to ask Grant about how to block addresses in OTRS.
  • 2023-06-12 LWG to suggest to Mapilio to modify the wording regarding permission to OSM, to make it clearer.
  • 2023-07-10 Guillaume Rischard  to ask Grant regarding reducing the amount of spam on the privacy OTRS queue.
  • 2023-07-10 Tom Lee offered to delete spam messages on the privacy OTRS queue.
  • 2023-07-10 Dermot McNally to ask Guillaume about the contact details of the Latin American group, in order to contact them about Ticket#2023032410000272 – Asesoría
  • 2023-08-14 Kathleen Lu to write back that LWG voted this is okay. [Topic: Ticket#2023081110000064 — First party websites as sources]
  • 2023-08-14 Kathleen Lu to contact Stamen and Stadia Maps [Topic: Email with complaint that OSM is used to display on a map supposed incidents where foreigners might have become perpetrators of crimes]
  • 2023-09-11 Kathleen Lu to add the "template response to missing attribution reports" to the OTRS queue.
  • 2023-09-11 Kathleen Lu to email OWG and ask them to add the following two templates to the OTRS group queues (LWG, DWG, MWG, etc): 1) template response to missing attribution reports 2) user deletion request template.
  • 2023-09-11 Kathleen Lu to request tweak: By signing up, you agree to our terms of use and the [OpenStreetMap] Foundation’s [Contributor Terms]. [MapBuilder].
  • 2023-09-11 Kathleen Lu to reply "Feel free to disregard." [Topic: From OWG - allegedly Russian email].
  • 2023-09-11 Simon Hughes to ask Geolytica whether they have removed all the OSM data, and not just for TomTom.
  • 2023-10-16 Tom Lee to create a draft statement by the next LWG meeting that could be used by the board to encourage governments to publish under CC0, ODbL, OGL or with a waiver to OSM. [Topic: Re-discuss the compatibility issue of ODbL and CC-BY?]
  • 2023-10-16 Kathleen Lu to comment on the pull request, that the LWG voted and approved the addition [Topic: Request from Czech local chapter]
  • 2023-11-13 Kathleen Lu to write back to the person who reported to LWG about Geolytica and mention that we got contacted by another company and they reported fixing the issue. Enquire whether the issue was fixed for them too.
  • 2023-11-13 Tom Lee to create a draft statement by the next LWG meeting that could be used by the board to encourage governments to publish under CC0, ODbL, OGL or with a waiver to OSM. [Topic: Ordnance Survey Ireland waiver - Update by Dermot McNally]
  • 2023-11-13 Kathleen to email that German-speaking LWG members are happy to have a conversation with Brigette and discuss compatibility. [Topic: Ticket#2023110610000184 - Importing Austrian governmental data]
  • 2023-11-13 Tom Hummel to read https://open.nrw/system/files/media/document/file/opennrw_rechtl_gutachten_datenlizenzen_lowres_web.pdf https://open.nrw/verwendung-von-open-data-lizenzen [Topic: Ticket#2023110610000184 - Importing Austrian governmental data]m to add to add the following two templat
  • 2023-11-13 Tom Hummel to contact a lawyer from the German local chapter, and get his opinion on the general stance of mid-level governmental agencies. Estimated to have a response by early December. [Topic: Ticket#2023110610000184 - Importing Austrian governmental data]
  • 2023-11-13 Dorothea Kazazi to create an account on blog.osm.org for Kathleen Lu. [Topic: Ticket#2023110610000184 - Importing Austrian governmental data]
  • 2023-11-13 Tom Lee to clean the draft blog-post and it will get shared with the board and the Communications Working Group. [Topic: Ticket#2023110610000184 - Importing Austrian governmental data]

Reportage and action item updates

On action item: Tom Hummel to contact a lawyer from the German local chapter, and get his opinion on the general stance of mid-level governmental agencies

  • Did not talk to him yet.
  • Feedback from other people from German authorities:
    • They will probably not choose CC0 licence – don’t want to forego attribution.
    • They want the German look-alike CC-BY.
  • Topic also discussed by FOSSGIS – they also don’t know which licence the authorities should choose.

German look-alike CC-BY licence: https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Licence_Compatibility#German_DL-DE/by-2-0

  • Caution: English translation is full of errors.
  • Has no DRM provisions.
  • Has other quirks.

Tom Hummel is creating a document which he’ll share with the LWG.

French have their own licence: https://www.etalab.gouv.fr/licence-ouverte-open-licence/

  • Solved the issues by saying that they consider themselves compatible with CC-BY and ODC-BY (ODbL minus the share-alike).
  • Their licence has attribution requirements.

It might make sense to have a governmental licence which provides explicit compatibility with OSM.

Any updates on reported attribution cases?

Reports in OTRS:


Trademarks – any updates?

Guillaume - HOT trademark agreement update

OSMF and HOT’s draft trademark agreement was approved during the recent OSMF Board meeting.

Simon - Any new notices

Absent.


Geolytica

Request to not publish the minutes of this section. Discussion for 40 minutes.


Blog post suggesting EU countries should adopt CC-0 licensing was well-received

Blog-post live.

Everyone seemed pretty happy with it.


Ticket#2023110610000184 related - Meeting with Brigitte Lutz/Austrian gov and OSMF Austria Local Chapter

Dermot McNally did not attend the meeting. The person wanted to find a new date.


From Guillaume: sending attribution letters


Queries to legal-questions

Ticket#2023112510000086

Not discussed.

New action items

None.


Next Meeting

Monday 8 January 2024, 1800 UTC


Meeting adjourned 1 hour and 10 minutes after start.