One of the issues with this discussion is that we are using one word to describe many different things, that we tend to view as one from a usage pov. IMHO it would be difficult to see how partial matching/auto-completion of addresses would not simply be generating a substantial extract and hence a derivative database if actually stored.
On the other hand I could probably make a case that if addresses that already contain sufficient information to query a database successfully are associated with a single approximate coordinate-tupel (and not with an OSM object as Nominatim can do) that the result could amount to a "produced work". But that is just IMHO. Simon Am 08.07.2013 09:46, schrieb Peter K: > Hi there, > > I would like to have clarification on this subject as well (but be > aware that I'm just in the process of understanding the OSM license -> > see the other thread). > > What I do not understand with the OSM license is the following > (constructed) example: > > * I have a separate geo coder application based on OSM data > * I have my own user database which is public to every individual > > Now what happens when I use the geocoder to let users do > autocompleting its addresses in my "somehow public" database? I have > lots of users so this "manual" copying from OSM would be *substantial* > but at the same time it is clear that I cannot make the database > itself public. Or is the resulting database still separate as there > are clean "OSM columns"? > > Regards, > Peter. > > > > _______________________________________________ > legal-talk mailing list > legal-t...@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
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