On 4 Mar 2009, at 23:44, 80n wrote: > > If you were able to extract coordinates then this could be > regarded as > > reverse engineering the Produced Work, in which case it's covered by > > 4.7 > > There's that "substantial" caveat again though. > > Very unlikely, derived individual coordinates are facts. I've asked > multiple lawyers about this personally. > > Are you saying that facts that are derived from a Produced Work are > not covered by the reverse engineering clause? > > If I derive the location of all the street corners of a city from a > rendered map then that is just a collection of facts and not a > reverse engineered recreation of the original database? If so, it > doesn't seem like the reverse engineering clause is worth the paper > its written on.
Please consult your nearest IP lawyer, I'm going to refrain from providing legal opinion. We can queue this up for legal though if you want? Best Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
