Hi,
On 22.07.2012 00:22, Paul Norman wrote:
If CC4 comes out with such indiscrimante inclusion of database rights
then my guess is that it will either be automatically impossible to
licene Produced Works under CC, or we will have to explicitly disallow
it.
I'm not sure who you mean by we in that statement. If ODbL allowed produced
works under CC4 the only people who could disallow it would be ODC with a
license upgrade. OSMF couldn't stop produced works under CC4 licenses.
The release of Produced Works under a CC license including database
rights, and with that the danger of a complete and systematic reverse
engineering under a CC license, would undermine one of the pillars of
ODbL - the requirement to share a database from which Produced Works are
made. I would estimate that ODC have something against that, and would
react in some way.
I don't know if the issue would be a big problem for us. It's possible
that we just say: "Oh well, if you think you need our data under CC4
then here you go." - we could even choose to dual-license at the source.
That would weaken our share-alike quite a bit as everyone would use the
license that requires them to share the least. A routing web site that
operates on a clever enhanced routing tree would choose CC-BY-SA so they
only have to release individual results and not the whole database; a
publisher would choose ODbL so that they only have to release the
database but not allow copying of the map.
If we wanted to stop it, then the following actions could be possible:
* lean on ODC to release new anti-Produced-Works-with-database-rights
license;
* execute CT license change procedure to change to homemade
ODbL-with-extras license;
* define that anything allowing the automated re-extraction of our data
with less than x% precision loss is a derivative database and never a
produced work
--
Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33"
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