Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Exception in Open Data License/Community Guidelines for temporary file

2011-06-30 Thread Jonathan Harley
On 29/06/11 19:56, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, James Livingston wrote: If I use software that builds an in-memory data structure which you believe to be a database in order to make a produced work, how would you suggest that I fulfil my obligation to make such derived database available on

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Exception in Open Data License/Community Guidelines for temporary file

2011-06-30 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Jonathan Harley wrote: Really I'm at a loss to see the point of the share-alike clause (4.4). I can't think of a use-case for OSM where processing the database doesn't reduce the amount of information. The canonical case, often cited by those who say OSM needs a share-alike licence, is to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Exception in Open Data License/Community Guidelines for temporary file

2011-06-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 06/29/11 05:21, James Livingston wrote: I don't think it would be treated differently, because I believe that an in-memory data structure would still be a database (in the ODbL and database right sense of database). I don't see how the storage mechanism makes a difference. Would you

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Exception in Open Data License/Community Guidelines for temporary file

2011-06-29 Thread James Livingston
On 29/06/2011, at 4:25 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: On 06/29/11 05:21, James Livingston wrote: I don't think it would be treated differently, because I believe that an in-memory data structure would still be a database (in the ODbL and database right sense of database). I don't see how the storage

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Exception in Open Data License/Community Guidelines for temporary file

2011-06-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, James Livingston wrote: If I use software that builds an in-memory data structure which you believe to be a database in order to make a produced work, how would you suggest that I fulfil my obligation to make such derived database available on request? I have absolutely no idea. It's one

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Exception in Open Data License/Community Guidelines for temporary file

2011-06-29 Thread Thomas
If I use software that builds an in-memory data structure which you believe to be a database in order to make a produced work, how would you suggest that I fulfil my obligation to make such derived database available on request? I have absolutely no idea. It's one of the many things I

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Exception in Open Data License/Community Guidelines for temporary file

2011-06-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Kai Krueger wrote: If, on the other hand, out of the black box comes a derived database, then you can simply share *that* database and nobody cares what happened in the black box, because you only have to share the last in a chain of derived databases that leads to a produced work, right?

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Exception in Open Data License/Community Guidelines for temporary file

2011-06-29 Thread Tobias Knerr
Kai Krueger wrote: Am I allowed to declare my png mapnik tile as a derived database, stick an ODbL label on it an be done with it? Then I don't have to reverse engineer my render to figure out if or if not it produces an internal database and worry about having to maintaining a snapshot of

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Exception in Open Data License/Community Guidelines for temporary file

2011-06-29 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: If, on the other hand, out of the black box comes a derived database, then you can simply share *that* database and nobody cares what happened in the black box, because you only have to share the last in a chain of derived databases that leads to a produced work, right?

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Exception in Open Data License/Community Guidelines for temporary file

2011-06-29 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Richard Fairhurst wrote: The Directive says a database [snip Richard's quote and replace mine from http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31996L0009:EN:HTML] Article 1 Scope 1. This Directive concerns the legal protection of databases in any form. 2. For the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Exception in Open Data License/Community Guidelines for temporary file

2011-06-28 Thread James Livingston
On 23 June 2011 03:29, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: In today's operating systems, whether something is in a file or in memory is a boundary that might easily get blurred. It would be kind of strange if one algorithm that chooses to build a giant data structure in memory (using,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Exception in Open Data License/Community Guidelines for temporary file

2011-06-22 Thread David Groom
- Original Message - From: ThomasB toba0...@yahoo.de To: legal-talk@openstreetmap.org Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 2:18 PM Subject: [OSM-legal-talk] Exception in Open Data License/Community Guidelines for temporary file Dear Legal-list, My question applies to all kind

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Exception in Open Data License/Community Guidelines for temporary file

2011-06-22 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 06/22/11 15:18, ThomasB wrote: My point is that a user of software, and this is not limited to Garmin map software, may not know what a software does in the background i.e. if it is creating a (temporary) Derivative Database, a Collective Database or whatever. Yes. The software might

[OSM-legal-talk] Exception in Open Data License/Community Guidelines for temporary file

2011-06-22 Thread ThomasB
Dear Legal-list, My question applies to all kind of software that process OSM data but I am using Garmin maps as a popular example. Generating Garmin maps with contours is pretty easy and sometimes completely GUI driven. You select an OSM file, click a button and get a Garmin map. I have

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Exception in Open Data License/Community Guidelines for temporary file

2011-06-22 Thread ThomasB
David Groom wrote: As far as I can see, ignoring your specific example, and genearlising, the unwanted implication of your clarification above would be that as long as someone deleted the derivate database they had created they could then claim it was temporary and therefore sidestep

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Exception in Open Data License/Community Guidelines for temporary file

2011-06-22 Thread David Groom
- Original Message - From: ThomasB toba0...@yahoo.de To: legal-t...@openstreetmap.org Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 3:03 PM Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Exception in Open Data License/Community Guidelines for temporary file David Groom wrote: As far as I can see, ignoring