Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [Talk-us] press from SOTM US

2012-10-22 Thread Paul Norman
> From: Alex Barth [mailto:a...@mapbox.com] > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 4:25 PM > To: Licensing and other legal discussions. > Cc: talk...@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [Talk-us] press from SOTM US > > Fair point. Still - I would ask what is the purpose of this protection

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [Talk-us] press from SOTM US

2012-10-22 Thread Alex Barth
Thanks for kicking over to legal list. Responses inline. On Oct 22, 2012, at 6:34 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > On 22.10.2012 22:12, Alex Barth wrote: >> I do hope to come to an agreement within OSM along the lines you just >> hashed out, Frederik (while not quite advocating for it): > >

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [Talk-us] press from SOTM US

2012-10-22 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 22.10.2012 22:12, Alex Barth wrote: I do hope to come to an agreement within OSM along the lines you just hashed out, Frederik (while not quite advocating for it): This really ought to be discussed on legal-talk where there are many people with a year-long involvement into the finer de

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-22 Thread Igor Brejc
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > 2. Generalizations: simplifications of roads, polygons etc. for a >> certain map scale. >> > > Same process - either you share the generalized data or you share the > algorithm that produces it. If, for example, you were to import wi

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-22 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/10/22 Jonathan Harley : > Anyway, the ODbL is explicit that an image is an example of a produced work, > so for anyone creating them, their responsibility is clear: include the > notice required for produced works. > > It's also explicit that a produced work is not a derivative database (4.5b)

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-22 Thread Paul Norman
> From: Frederik Ramm [mailto:frede...@remote.org] > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 11:53 AM > To: legal-talk@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL > > Another interesting question is how easy the algorithm you specify must > be. It is clear that

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-22 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 22.10.2012 18:45, Igor Brejc wrote: What does "pre-processed or augmented" data really mean? OSM data has to be preprocessed to get to the form suitable for rendering. Some examples of preprocessing: 1. Importing it into PostGIS and flattening the geometries (like Mapnik does it).

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-22 Thread Jonathan Harley
On 22/10/12 16:35, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2012/10/22 Jonathan Harley : You have an obligation to make your derivative database available, if you made one. or describe the details and release the code, how you did it, in this case you don't have to release the data. Oops, yes, I over-sim

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-22 Thread Igor Brejc
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Jonathan Harley wrote: > > Unless, and I'm assuming you don't intend this, it was accurate enough to > be used as data - for example, if you labelled the lat/long of the bounding > box accurately and included high enough resolution vector data. If that was > the c

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-22 Thread Igor Brejc
Hi, Thanks for your clarifications, everybody. I was under the (looks like wrong) impression the produced work must also be available under the ODbL license. One issue still bugs me though: If the closed software you have used did not work on the data directly, but > on some sort of pre-processed

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-22 Thread Jonathan Harley
On 22/10/12 11:07, Igor Brejc wrote: On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Richard Fairhurst mailto:rich...@systemed.net>> wrote: Produced Works do not have to be licensed under a share-alike licence. Attribution is required, as per the above clause. My view is that this implies a do

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-22 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 10/22/12 12:07, Igor Brejc wrote: 2. I generate a PDF map from that extract using an unpublished, closed-source software. The map includes the appropriate OSM attribution text. 1. Is this possible? Yes (assuming that the PDF is not a database). > 2. What are my obligation

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-22 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM)
On 22 October 2012 10:44, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Produced Works do not have to be licensed under a share-alike licence. > Attribution is required, as per the above clause. My view is that this > implies a downstream attribution requirement too ("reasonably calculated to > make any Person... ex

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-22 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/10/22 Igor Brejc : > Would there be a difference if it was PNG/SVG instead of PDF? there are 2 ways to put graphics into a PDF: those with vectors embedded and those with a raster inside. The first is to treat like a SVG and the second like a PNG (always asuming you didn't password protect t

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-22 Thread Igor Brejc
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Produced Works do not have to be licensed under a share-alike licence. > Attribution is required, as per the above clause. My view is that this > implies a downstream attribution requirement too ("reasonably calculated to > make any Pers

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Igor Brejc wrote: > 4.3 Notice for using output (Contents). Creating and Using a > Produced Work does not require the notice in Section 4.2. However, if > you Publicly Use a Produced Work, You must include a notice > associated with the Produced Work reasonably calculated to make any > Person that

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-22 Thread Igor Brejc
Hi, My understanding (emphases are mine): “*Contents*” – The contents of this Database, which includes the > information, independent works, or other material collected into the > Database. For example, the contents of the Database could be factual data > or works such as *images*, audiovisual ma

[OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-22 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM)
I have a question concerning the ability of someone creating produced works from an ODbL-licensed database to license that produced work for use by others. Strictly speaking it's a question about the ODbL, rather that OSM, but since it will have a significant effect on OSM users, I thought I would