80n, > Indeed it is exactly this case I had in mind, where the license gives the > contributor fewer rights. It creates a class of derivative works, called > Produced Works, that are not share alike.
In my opinion, OSM's value is almost entirely in its being a database. If OSM were not a database, then any meaningful use of OSM I could think of would first require converting it into one! A license that protects this core capacity and makes sure that OSM data, when published/used/whatever as a database, remains free, does IMHO indeed capture the essential bit without wasting energy on the fringes. You are right in saying that a "Produced Work" under ODbL does not carry the same restrictions as many believe it now has under CC-BY-SA, but I fail to see the use of implementing such restrictions. In my eyes, there is nothing worth "protecting" in a "Produced Work" when our data has lost its essential capability of being accessed as a database. And the essential capability of database-ness is protected, as Richard pointed out, even if the data should be conveyed by means of a Produced Work. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
