[Legal-general] licence question about using streetnames for text analysis

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

El Martes, 4 de Agosto de 2009, PDC, Marijn Swenne escribió:
> Hi all,
>
> After reading the license and licence interpretation page in the wiki, I'm
> still not sure about the following: I want to use a list of streetnames in
> a text analyses program to recognise them in the text. Do I now have to put
> the text under the share alike licence?

A list of street names is a database, even if it's in plaintext form. So if 
you extract the street names from a OSM planet dump, that list has to be 
covered by the ODbL.

Now, the results of the text analysis program are different stuff. Most 
probably, they will *NOT* have to be covered by the ODbL.


Cheers,
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