On Tuesday 06 August 2019, Kathleen Lu via legal-talk wrote:
> > If a user misuses a produced work, that is the fault of the user
> > (and
>
> perhaps a breach of the license by the user), not the work producer.
> I don't this is a slippery slope, but rather a principled decision.
> But the
The produced work guideline goes down the slippery slope of trying to
> define a produced work though the intention of the creator. This was
> always a highly questionable approach. Not only because intention in
> general is hard to determine objectively but also because the ODbL does
> not
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
I'd consider the work a produced work. I will apply 4.3. ODbL.
Thank you for your help.
newsgr...@pirschkarte.de:
> Considering the Produced Work - Guideline: Is the result of Osm2city in
> your opinion a product or a derived database?
>
> If it is a product, then you can choose your own
Considering the Produced Work - Guideline: Is the result of Osm2city
in your opinion a product or a derived database?
If it is a product, then you can choose your own license, but you
still have comply with the conditions of No. 4.3. ODbL .
If it is a derived database then you have to
Hello,
I've got a question about licensing.
I'm using a program called Osm2city [1] that generates scenery for the
flight gear flight simulator(FGFS) [2].
To be on the safe side, I've currently released the results under the
WTFPL which isn't a big deal for me but FGFS is GPL2 only and it's
