Greetings, My company is currently considering using OSM maps for pinpointing (geocoding) our own data, and then commercially selling a) printed maps produced with these pinpoints, and b) digital feeds incorporating these geocodes. These pinpoints would form a small part of a large database of otherwise fully copyrighted data. I've read through the license and this:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Use_Cases#Use_Cases_regarding_the_extraction_of_data_from_OSM_for_various_purposes http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Use_Cases#Map_composite_from_OSM_and_commercial_data My understanding is that data created by pinpointing on OSM maps is also covered by ODBL, this use most likely qualifies as "Substantial", and the resulting works will be made "Public". Hence: a) The printed maps would be Produced Works. Any work containing them has to be tagged with an ODBL notice, and we'd have to provide the OSM-derived geocodes used on each map -- but nothing else? -- on request. b) The digital feeds would be Derivative Databases and need to be tagged as containing ODBL data. However, does the inclusion of some OSM-derived geocodes mean that the *entire thing* is now licensed under ODBL, and once sold could be legally redistributed in entirety by the customer? Or can we constrain the ODBL data to those geocodes alone? Any advice would be appreciated, as I still have a faint flicker of hope that we can get this past the corporate legal team and possibly even contribute back to OSM! Cheers, -jani _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk