On Monday 16 December 2019, matthias.straetl...@buerotiger.de wrote: > > Okay, I'll canceld all plans to use OpenStreetMap for this task. > I've contacted several commercial data providers and hope to get > offers tomorrow.
In general (not necessarily specifically in your case - i don't know enough about it to make that assessment) i think this is a good approach if you have troubles with the share-alike provisions of the ODbL. If you want or need to keep a proprietary data set proprietary it is natural that you have limitations in using it together with open data with a viral license. This is definitely a better approach than trying to find loopholes in the license with brute force and wishful thinking. Even if that is possible and you can present an interpretation of the wording of the ODbL that supports your use case without share-alike this was clearly not the intention of the OSM community when adopting the ODbL to do so. You need to be aware of course that the big corporate data users will keep looking for loopholes - real or imagined - to achieve a competitive advantage. Like in the tale of the frog and the scorpion: It is in their nature. So if you respect the spirit of share-alike in the ODbL you will always be potentially at a competitive disadvantages to the corporate data users who simply don't give a damn. The even better approach is of course to adopt the spirit of open data and use OSM data together with other data sources embracing share-alike. Unfortunately so far the OSMF has not provided much guidance on how to correctly do that, i.e. how to share share-alike data sets practically. The LWG unfortunately currently focuses on guidance on how to avoid share-alike and attribution as much as possible. > I didn't expected OpenStreetMap to be such non-free and permissive > :-( The usual view is that share-alike provisions do not make something non-free or non-open because they are meant to protect and extend the freedom and only constrain users of truly non-free data. But anyone can have a different opinion on that of course. Both share-alike and attribution play an important role in OSM in the social contract between mappers and data users. In return for being able to use the results of the work of the mappers for free, data users are required to share improvements of the data or the results of producing something of additional value in combination with other data under open license terms. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
