Hi, On 09/23/2015 01:26 AM, Alex Barth wrote: > This could be well done within the confines of the ODbL by endorsing the > "Geocoding is Produced Work" > guideline > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2014-July/007900.html
Frankly, even if I was of the opinion that it would be desirable for the ODbL to not apply to geocoding, I don't think that "Geocoding is Produced Work" could ever fly, legally, at least in countries that have a sui generis database law. I mean, nobody cares about a single on-the-fly geocoding result (this easily falls under the "substantial" guideline) but if you repeatedly query an ODbL database with the aim of retrieving from it, say, a million lat-lon pairs to store in your own database, then how in the world could this new database ever be *not* a derivative? Even if you were to define a single geocoding result as a produced work, combining a large number of them in a database would still get you a derived database again. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
