OK, now we are at the heart of it. If the database law attaches, you're using a bad law - one that may well be repealed, and has been rebuked even by the EC itself. And it's uncompiled code - we don't know what "substantial" extraction means, or what I could do if I downloaded and extracted in a non-governed domain.
If the copyright law attaches and the data is PD, I can extract it and your contract doesn't matter. You pays your money and you takes your choice. jtw Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: > El Miércoles, 20 de Febrero de 2008, John Wilbanks escribió: >> *Maps* may indeed be copyrighted. > > Agreed. > >> The data that underlies those maps is probably in the public domain... > > Agreed, and that's what the Open Data Factual Info License addresses. > > *But* when you put together a large enough quantity of PD data, you get > either > DB protection or copyright protection (depending on your jurisdiction). > That's what the ODL addresses, and that's how we can keep the share-alike > component. > > (Disclaimer: IANAL, this e-mail may be biased) > _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-talk