On 10/28/09, Erik Johansson <erjo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Matt Amos <zerebub...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> we had a long thread on this a couple of weeks ago (ODbL "virality"
>> questions) from which i think the consensus was that linking OSM data
>> with data from independent sources creates a collective database,
>> rather than a single derivative database.
>
> No that was what The PD/Fairhurst Doctrine states. ODBL seems to mean
> that we loose almost everything that is share-alike with the current
> license if we don't interpret the collective database loop hole a lot
> harder than what The PD Doctrine does.

the Fairhurst doctrine was an interpretation of the ODbL - in my
opinion it's the best interpretation and doesn't create any loopholes.

cheers,

matt

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