Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbl and collective databases
David, David Groom wrote: This seems to be quite different to my interpretation, and it would be good to have some clarification, as the definition is quite fundamental to a number of use cases of OSM data. You can always make an excerpt from an ODbL licensed database, which will then be an ODbL licensed database in its own right. That's the classic "derived database" thing. While you have to retain attribution saying you derived this from X, in every other aspect your new, derived database stands on its own feet, and the ODbL applies to it in exactly the same fashion as it did to the "original" database. Therefore, whenever the ODbL says "this database", that could either be the full OSM database; or you could make an excerpt from OSM, licensed under ODbL, which would then again be "this database" in a smaller context. Apart from the attribution thing, the excerpted database is not different, legally, from the "mother database"; there is nothing in ODbL that refers to that mother database in any way. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
[OSM-legal-talk] ODbl and collective databases
The ODbL defines a "Collective Database" as " this Database in unmodified form as part of a collection of independent databases in themselves that together are assembled into a collective whole." Now I had assumed that as far as the above definition was concerned that: "Database" meant "Database as defined by the ODbL; and "unmodified form" meant that the Database had not been modified. In posting to the talk-au list I have been told that my interpretation is incorrect. Specifically "Database" could mean "Database" or "Derivative Database", and "unmodified form" is a merely a clarification of "independent" and does not mean unmodified. On this basis a "collective Database" would then be defined as "This Database, or Derivative Database in independent form as part of a collection of independent databases in themselves that together are assembled into a collective whole" . This seems to be quite different to my interpretation, and it would be good to have some clarification, as the definition is quite fundamental to a number of use cases of OSM data. Regards David ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
