Frederick Ramm wrote: "I'm surprised that nobody else seems to see a problem in this. Am I perhaps barking up some completely imaginary tree?"
It seems like some others definitely share your concern. Thank you for bringing up the issue. Simon Ward wrote: "It gets more difficult when you start providing things like place name searching: Is that still acceptably a produced work, or are you providing access to the database? I would err towards providing the database." I think this thread has identified a critical issue for the new license. We need a clear distinction between a database and a produced work. At one end of the spectrum we have a relational database, at the other end we have raster image, and in the middle we have something like SVG. So where do we draw the line between a database and a derived work? How do we describe this line in the license? The Sunburned Surveyor On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Dair Grant wrote: >> I don't have a better phrasing for 4.6b, but I would like to allow >> alterations to be specified as: >> >> - A literal set of transformations to apply (e.g., a lookup table >> or code that could be executed to apply the transform). > > Sorry, I somehow overlooked this part of your post so repeated the > suggestion in mine. But as I said in my post, I'm not even sure if we > want to request things like "I instructed my PostGIS database to build > this clever index" be shared or if we are content to say that we only > want sharing where original data comes into play. ("I wrote a random > number generator and introduced 2,000 nodes at random into the database" > -> not share; "I opened up an editor and added 2,000 post boxes" -> > share... don't know.) > > 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 > _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk