Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A Creative Commons iCommons license

2009-03-01 Thread Gustav Foseid
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Not on the map per se, but if you use the map to re-create the original database then - at least that's what I was thinking! - you are not using your own database but you are (again) using the database compiled by the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A Creative Commons iCommons license

2009-03-01 Thread Peter Miller
On 1 Mar 2009, at 11:44, Gustav Foseid wrote: On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Not on the map per se, but if you use the map to re-create the original database then - at least that's what I was thinking! - you are not using your own database but

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A Creative Commons iCommons license

2009-02-28 Thread 80n
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

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A Creative Commons iCommons license

2009-02-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
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

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A Creative Commons iCommons license

2009-02-28 Thread 80n
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 -

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A Creative Commons iCommons license

2009-02-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
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

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A Creative Commons iCommons license

2009-02-28 Thread 80n
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

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A Creative Commons iCommons license

2009-02-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
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

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A Creative Commons iCommons license

2009-02-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
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

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A Creative Commons iCommons license

2009-02-28 Thread Rob Myers
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

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A Creative Commons iCommons license

2009-02-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
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

[OSM-legal-talk] A Creative Commons iCommons license

2009-02-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
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 Elements as this License, or a Creative Commons iCommons license that contains the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A Creative Commons iCommons license

2009-02-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Richard Fairhurst wrote: Could we ask CC to declare that the new fabulous ODbL, after due revision and comments by the community, can be considered a Creative Commons iCommons licence No, you'd never get Apple to agree. Bye Frederik ___

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A Creative Commons iCommons license

2009-02-28 Thread 80n
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.netwrote: 80n wrote: 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. No.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A Creative Commons iCommons license

2009-02-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
80n wrote: No. CC-BY-SA does not have a class of derivative works that are not share alike. ODbL does. No it doesn't, that's the entire point of what I said. (Is this the five-minute argument or the full half-hour?) This is what 4.7 in ODbL is all about. The data is still protected, if

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] A Creative Commons iCommons license

2009-02-28 Thread 80n
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.netwrote: 80n wrote: No. CC-BY-SA does not have a class of derivative works that are not share alike. ODbL does. No it doesn't, that's the entire point of what I said. (Is this the five-minute argument or the full