Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-28 Thread Jean-Marc Liotier
On 02/28/2013 05:54 AM, Jake Wasserman wrote: I'm a little confused. The way I interpret your comment, merely storing ODbL and non-ODbL data in the same database triggers share alike. But on the use cases wiki page (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/License/Use_Cases), Case 4 says: 'It

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-28 Thread Jonathan Harley
On 28/02/13 08:04, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: On 02/28/2013 05:54 AM, Jake Wasserman wrote: I'm a little confused. The way I interpret your comment, merely storing ODbL and non-ODbL data in the same database triggers share alike. But on the use cases wiki page

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-28 Thread Simon Poole
The use of the term Database in an intellectual property context has essentially nothing to do with the CS/IT concept of a database. The statement on the wiki is correct, and Alexs statement was a bit misleading. I don't think this discussion has made any progress since the last time it came up.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-28 Thread Olov McKie
Hello All! First off, thank you for the feedback I have gotten so far! I had an idea about what answers I would get on my questions, but some of your answers were not what I expected, so let me reason a bit about each case and I would love your feedback on my reasoning. Please also look on

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-28 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Olov McKie o...@mckie.se wrote: 1. If we present an OSM map to the user let them click on the map and use the coordinates they clicked on as part of the meta-data for a place in our application, will the resulting database be considered a derived database?

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-28 Thread Alex Barth
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Jake Wasserman jwasser...@gmail.comwrote: 'It makes no difference whether you store the data sets separately, or together in the same database software, whether that is a RDBMS, NOSQL, filesystem or anything else. So long as the other data isn't derived from

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-28 Thread Rob Myers
On 28/02/13 00:17, Frederik Ramm wrote: As I said in my opening paragraph, the share-alike license never prohibits you from doing something with the data; it just prohibits you from prohibiting stuff! 3 - Rob. ___ legal-talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-28 Thread Tobias Knerr
On 28.02.2013 01:17, Frederik Ramm wrote: Just to make this one point clear: What you *can* do with the data is pretty clear and pretty easy. This is not really true. At the core of the ODbL is the idea that produced works and derivative databases should be treated differently, and that

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-28 Thread Rob Myers
On 27/02/13 20:24, Marc Regan wrote: I'm also going to add we should do away with share alike in the mid term. It's just complicated and hurting OSM. Case in point: example at hand. +1. If you want to do anything with OSM data besides make map tiles, the cloud of uncertainty around what you can

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-28 Thread Rob Myers
On 27/02/13 21:19, Rob wrote: Rather than share-alike I would like to share-what-I-like but that is not an option. And I'd like you to make me a sandwich. - Rob. ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-28 Thread Rob Myers
On 28/02/13 23:45, Tobias Knerr wrote: It also _forces_ you to prohibit stuff, by requiring ODbL for derivative databases. That doesn't prohibit anything. You can make derivative databases. You just can't prohibit people from using them freely. - Rob.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-28 Thread Svavar Kjarrval
It would prohibit me from using the CC0 license if I use any data with a ODbL license to create a derived database. - Svavar Kjarrval On 28/02/13 23:49, Rob Myers wrote: On 28/02/13 23:45, Tobias Knerr wrote: It also _forces_ you to prohibit stuff, by requiring ODbL for derivative databases.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-28 Thread Alex Barth
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: I think that the OSM community is already very open towards commercial use; This is bigger than just commercial use. The ODbL is an obstacle to contribute to OSM for anyone - business or not - who is bound by the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License question, user clicking on map

2013-02-28 Thread Paul Norman
The fact that you can’t mix OSM + proprietary data and then distribute it as some kind of “OSM but better” without releasing the proprietary data is a feature of share-alike licenses, not a bug. The public domain argument is a bit of a red herring. If OSM used a PD-like license like PDDL