<p dir="ltr">On Jan 29, 2013 12:57 AM, "Paul Norman" <<a href="mailto:penorman@mac.com">penorman@mac.com</a>> wrote:</p>
<p dir="ltr">> This license issue is concerning. Are you saying that if someone downloads<br>
> the data, converts it to .osm and doesn't do modifications that result can't<br>
> be distributed? Can't you just get the .osm file that you would end up<br>
> uploading? After all, if there was no OSM data in the area you'd presumably<br>
> not alter most of the file.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The word in Spanish is more like "altered". It doesn't matter if we get a 100% equivalent. Because of law issues -unrelated to copyright- original files directly from source cannot be shared. However, any transformation -including file format- gives full copyrights to the author of the alteration, which effectively makes them "almost PD+attribution".</p>
<p dir="ltr">Law is strange, I agree :-)</p>
<p dir="ltr">He definitely can share the .osm.</p>
<p dir="ltr">--<br>
Jaime Crespo</p>