On Friday 02 August 2019, Tom Lee via legal-talk wrote:
> [...] If you
> replace "pixels" with "triangles", the exact same thing can be said
> of the 3D objects being rendered here for use by the Flight Gear
> simulator.
And if you replace 'pixel' with node the exact same thing can be said
about
> if the way you use the data is more in a database-like fashion or more in
the form of a finished product ready for human consumption
This raises more questions, doesn't it? I think everyone agrees that a map
contained by a PNG file is a produced work. But such a file is merely a
collection of
To avoid you drawing the wrong conclusions based on the (rather
abstract) explanations made by others - based on a quick look at the
documentation on
http://wiki.flightgear.org/Osm2city.py
https://osm2city.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
that tool seems mainly a geometry data conversion program for
Agreed, my opinion is that generally a scenery generating program should be
considered a produced work.
It's possible the program reads from a derived database, depending on
whether map features were added, but that *database* could be made
available under ODbL. The program being GPL shouldn't
