Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL "virality" questions

2009-10-16 Thread Erik Johansson
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > > Erik Johansson wrote: >> Open Database License (ODbL) >> “Attribution and Share-Alike for Data/Databases” > > Yep. Exactly. > > CC-BY-SA, famously, allows you to combine different types of "creative > content" as a collective work. Wik

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL "virality" questions

2009-10-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Erik Johansson wrote: > Open Database License (ODbL) > “Attribution and Share-Alike for Data/Databases” Yep. Exactly. CC-BY-SA, famously, allows you to combine different types of "creative content" as a collective work. Wikipedia regularly combines GFDL text with CC-BY-SA photos, and no-one bats

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL "virality" questions

2009-10-10 Thread Erik Johansson
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > > Erik Johansson wrote: >> If this is all there is to it then you can make a collective database >> out of anything that is not connected on a map level to OSM data. >> That doesn't seem very viral to me. > > OSM's mission statement is: >

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL "virality" questions

2009-10-10 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Erik Johansson wrote: > If this is all there is to it then you can make a collective database > out of anything that is not connected on a map level to OSM data. > That doesn't seem very viral to me. OSM's mission statement is: "OpenStreetMap creates and provides free geographic data such as st

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL "virality" questions

2009-10-10 Thread Erik Johansson
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > 1. OSM pubs (Derivative Database) > 2. CiderInTheMorning data (presumably proprietary) > 3. table mapping OSM ids to CITM ids If this is all there is to it then you can make a collective database out of anything that is not connected on a

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL "virality" questions

2009-10-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Matt Amos wrote: > are you suggesting that we change our guideline on what is substantial? I am. Well, not so much "change", more "clarify". "Substantial" in EU Database Directive terms can mean quantitative and/or qualitative. I agree that extracting a "pubs of Britain" dataset and distribut

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL "virality" questions

2009-10-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Matt Amos wrote: > can the SA requirement be satisfied by saying that we consider the > extracted IDs to be an ODbL part of a collective database, where the > proprietary data is the other part? it would require the ODbL part > (i.e: the list of IDs) to be made available, but nothing else. This i

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL "virality" questions

2009-10-08 Thread Erik Johansson
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Matt Amos wrote: > i think the more useful case to most people will be to use the OSM > data geographically. if i started beerintheOSM i'd want to use OSM for > as much of the geographic data as possible - that's kinda the point of > OSM isn't it? > > so, assuming

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL "virality" questions

2009-10-08 Thread Matt Amos
On 10/8/09, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > Matt Amos wrote: >>> Or could we perhaps even specify that anything that doesn't use our >>> geometry is not substantial? A list of all pubs in Madrid would be >>> substantial since it needs geometry; a list of all pubs on the planet >>> would not be subs

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL "virality" questions

2009-10-08 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Matt Amos wrote: >> Or could we perhaps even specify that anything that doesn't use our >> geometry is not substantial? A list of all pubs in Madrid would be >> substantial since it needs geometry; a list of all pubs on the planet >> would not be substantial. That would neatly cover anyone wan

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL "virality" questions

2009-10-07 Thread Matt Amos
On 10/7/09, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > Matt Amos wrote: >> can the SA requirement be satisfied by saying that we consider the >> extracted IDs to be an ODbL part of a collective database, where the >> proprietary data is the other part? it would require the ODbL part >> (i.e: the list of IDs)

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL "virality" questions

2009-10-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Matt Amos wrote: > can the SA requirement be satisfied by saying that we consider the > extracted IDs to be an ODbL part of a collective database, where the > proprietary data is the other part? it would require the ODbL part > (i.e: the list of IDs) to be made available, but nothing else. It

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL "virality" questions

2009-10-07 Thread Matt Amos
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > Matt Amos wrote: >> this is the crux of the question. the ODbL makes no distinction >> between lat/lon data, ID data, or any other sort of data. so the >> question then becomes; if i'm using some data from an ODbL database >> and incor

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL "virality" questions

2009-10-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Matt Amos wrote: > this is the crux of the question. the ODbL makes no distinction > between lat/lon data, ID data, or any other sort of data. so the > question then becomes; if i'm using some data from an ODbL database > and incorporating that into my database, do i have to release all of > m

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL "virality" questions

2009-10-07 Thread Matt Amos
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > >> as a concrete example, let's pretend i have a site, beerintheOSM, >> which rates pubs and allows commenting and photo uploads. if i'm >> storing the reviews linked against pubs linked against OSM >> (name/location/ID), i definitely h

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL "virality" questions

2009-10-07 Thread Matt Amos
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Dan Karran wrote: > What would happen if the beerintheOSM site encouraged their users to > add new pubs to their site, would that data - the equivalent of what > would have come from OSM, had they come from there - need to be > released as well, or again something

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL "virality" questions

2009-10-06 Thread Dan Karran
2009/10/6 Matt Amos : > as a concrete example, let's pretend i have a site, beerintheOSM, > which rates pubs and allows commenting and photo uploads. if i'm > storing the reviews linked against pubs linked against OSM > (name/location/ID), i definitely have to release the > (name/location/ID) reco

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL "virality" questions

2009-10-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, > no-one is suggesting that the extraction of names, locations and IDs > would be somehow outside of the ODbL. any site using these as lookup > keys would have to release that data under the ODbL. [...] > as a concrete example, let's pretend i have a site, beerintheOSM, > which rates pubs an

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL "virality" questions

2009-10-06 Thread Richard Shank
Matt Amos wrote: > as a concrete example, let's pretend i have a site, beerintheOSM, > which rates pubs and allows commenting and photo uploads. if i'm > storing the reviews linked against pubs linked against OSM > (name/location/ID), i definitely have to release the > (name/location/ID) records -

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL "virality" questions

2009-10-06 Thread Matt Amos
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Andrew Turner wrote: >> On 2 Oct 2009, at 18:06, Matt Amos wrote: >> >>> hi legals, >>> >>> i've come across a couple of interesting questions / use-cases for the >>> ODbL and wider discussion. it basically reduces to whether we want the >>> ODbL to have viral (GPL-

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL "virality" questions

2009-10-05 Thread Matt Amos
On 10/5/09, Laurence Penney wrote: > It seemed clear that such data extractions would not be considered > public domain, simply by virtue of having no grid reference or lat- > long. They were part of MasterMap, hence regarded as chargeable data. that's the suck-'em-dry licensing model ;-) > So e

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL "virality" questions

2009-10-05 Thread Laurence Penney
Interesting stuff, Matt. Back in 2005 I asked Ed Parsons, then still at Ordnance Survey, a similar question about OS TOIDs. I wondered if I could use TOIDs as tags in my own database of photos, in the sense "photo x depicts TOID y" - of course omitting all location data associated with the T

[OSM-legal-talk] ODbL "virality" questions

2009-10-02 Thread Matt Amos
hi legals, i've come across a couple of interesting questions / use-cases for the ODbL and wider discussion. it basically reduces to whether we want the ODbL to have viral (GPL-like) behaviour, or whether it should be less viral (LGPL-like). we've discussed this at an LWG meeting and the general f