On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.netwrote:
CC-BY-SA says:
You may distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly
digitally perform a Derivative Work only under the terms of this License, a
later version of this License with the same License
80n wrote:
It's my understanding that the ODbL is very different from a CC-BY-SA
license, so I think this would be a very unlikely thing to happen.
It's a share-alike licence with some attribution provision - I'd say that,
in fact, the two licences have pretty much the same intent. It's just
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.netwrote:
80n wrote:
It's my understanding that the ODbL is very different from a CC-BY-SA
license, so I think this would be a very unlikely thing to happen.
It's a share-alike licence with some attribution provision -
80n wrote:
It does have a share alike clause but it is different from the CC one.
As it gives the user fewer rights it's hard to see how it would be
compatible.
In the analogue case, GFDL's share-alike is different from CC-BY-SA's, yet
the relicensing happened. The point is that compatible
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.netwrote:
80n wrote:
It does have a share alike clause but it is different from the CC one.
As it gives the user fewer rights it's hard to see how it would be
compatible.
In the analogue case, GFDL's share-alike is
80n,
Indeed it is exactly this case I had in mind, where the license gives the
contributor fewer rights. It creates a class of derivative works, called
Produced Works, that are not share alike.
In my opinion, OSM's value is almost entirely in its being a database.
If OSM were not a
Hi
Richard Fairhurst wrote:
FWIW, I do think that the ODbL Produced Work provisions _may_ need
rewording. There seems to be a myth around here that a Produced Work can be
public domain. Clearly it can't - not in the traditional sense of PD -
because of 4.7 (the Reverse Engineering provision
Very roughly (I'm generalising here), in both cases, Derivatives refer =
to a
situation where the entire result is copyleft, Collectives refer to
something where only part of it is.=20
A collective work includes the untransformed work.
A derivative work adapts it in some way.
One can claim
Hi,
Gustav Foseid wrote:
The database directive does not stop you from making a geographic database,
rendering it as a map and then releasing it under something like CC0. I am a
bit unsure what kind of restriction the database directive could possibly
have placed on that map.
Not on the map