Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Database Contents License background

2019-10-09 Thread Simon Poole
This is simply a licence for the individual constituent parts of a database when that database is licensed on ODbL terms, in particular as in the case of OSM these are geographic facts. It is not a licence that has any bearing outside of such use. To understand it, it is probably simpler to

[OSM-legal-talk] Database Contents License background

2019-10-09 Thread Simone Aliprandi
I've just seen a license that sounds new to me: the ODC Database Contents License https://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/dbcl/1-0/index.html. I'd like to know more about its background (what led to its adoption by ODC? for such use it has been thought?), but I can't find much information on