[Licom-l] outreach: opengeodb

Tue Jun 16 20:43:02 UTC 2009

I switched the template to use PD-ineligible. Can someone look over it
and make sure everything looks ok:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:GFDL-OpenGeoDB

Ryan Kaldari

On 6/16/09, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
> That's easy enough.  I wonder why they were tagged that way in the
> first place...
>
> SJ
>
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Arne Klempert<arne at klempert.de> wrote:
>> Wow, I didn't know that these images are still in use. However, the
>> opengeodb data used to create them is PD. And since there was no
>> creativity involved (besides on how to click a button) you can put
>> them under any license you want. What about labelling existing images
>> as PD and drop the template?
>>
>> Arne
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Samuel Klein<meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Ryan - that would be our newest board member :-)
>>>
>>> Arne - is opengeodb going to make itself available under CC-SA?
>>>
>>> SJ
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Ryan Kaldari<kaldari at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> While updating the upload form license options I noticed that several
>>>> of the forms had an option for Template:GFDL-OpenGeoDB. This template
>>>> has the following notice on it:
>>>>
>>>> "This image was generated with http://opengeodb.hoppe-media.com/.
>>>> Permission to use it under GFDL was given by its author Akl." Akl
>>>> links to:
>>>>
>>>> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Akl
>>>>
>>>> We need to contact him and ask if he'll agree to switch opengeodb from
>>> < GFDL to CC.
>>>>
>>>> Ryan Kaldari
>>>>
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