On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Matt Amos <zerebub...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 3:43 PM, 80n <80n...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On what basis can you demand from company B that they release their > > intermediate database? You don't know (for sure) that they have an > > intermediate database. The ODbL doesn't give you any rights to ask > company > > A to warrant that they are not using an intermediate database. > > company B is required, under the ODbL, to provide an offer of their > derived database (or a diff, etc...). > > > What kind of duck test can you use to be sure that a derived database is > > involved in the process? > > if you suspect that someone is using a derived database, and isn't > making an offer of it, you are suspecting that they are in breach of > the ODbL. this can be tested by asking the company and, if they don't > provide a satisfactory response, legal proceedings could follow. > > Exactly. On what grounds would you suspect that either company was using a derived database? > this is similar to the AGPL. if you suspected that someone was > distributing or allowing "users [to] interact[...] remotely through a > computer network" with a derivative version of AGPL'd code, you could > ask them where the corresponding offer is and, if they don't provide a > satisfactory response, legal proceedings could follow. > > cheers, > > matt > > _______________________________________________ > legal-talk mailing list > legal-talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk >
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