On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Anthony wrote: >> >> Ah, if you meant "Covered Database" you shouldn't have said "database" >> :). Produced Work and Covered Database are mutually exclusive. >> Produced Work and database are not. > > The ODbL itself does not draw a clear line between Covered Database and > Produced Work. A common definition of the term "database" as given e.g. in > the EU database directive would apply even to a PNG fie, whereas we clearly > do not want a map tile to be considered a database.
Exactly. > Then again a PNG that > simply contains a coded version of the full database would certainly be a > database as far as we're concerned. Why would it matter? > This is something that we the project have to define, and the current > suggestion of LWG is > > "If it was intended for the extraction of the original data, then it is a > database and not a Produced Work. Otherwise it is a Produced Work." > > See > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Produced_Work_-_Guideline. LOL, I hope you go with that definition. _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
