See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Substantial_-_Guidelin e for guideline text.
> The Open Data License defines a term 'Substantial' which is then used > in the License to define a threshold about when certain clauses come > into effect. Substantial is a term defined in the relevant law, similar to fair use or fair dealing under copyright law. We're not referencing the law at all in the guideline. If the use is insubstantial, than the ODbL doesn't come into play at all as you need no license. Is there any relevant case law on substantial? > Less than 100 Features I'm not sure that 100 features will always qualify as insubstantial. As an example, consider a restaurant chain with a database of restaurants, and they have less than 100 locations. If we accept this definition of insubstantial as being true for geospatial databases in general, then their entire database could be extracted. If its true for OSM but not all other geospatial databases, we need to explain why. > The features relating to an area of up to 1,000 inhabitants which > can be a small densely populated area such as a European village or > can be a large sparsely-populated area for example a section of the > Australian bush. This doesn't really work in sparsely populated areas. I think it'd allow extraction of all of Antarctica! It'd basically give no protection to well mapped remote natural areas. _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
