[OSM-legal-talk] Progressing OSM to a new data Licence regime

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

> > BadMapCo creates a Collective Work based on their own mapping data
> > (roads in most places and footpath/cycle path data in places) and
> > augment this with additional footpath/cycle path from OSM (taken
> > as a Derivative Database with a geocoded boundary) and then
> > published the resulting DB as C BadMapCo as a Collective Database
> > with acknowledgement for OSM.
 
> If BadMapCo uses *only* footpaths from OSM, then the resulting DB can *not* be 
> a collective one.

[...]

> For a DB to be part of a collective DB, it must be *unmodified*.
> Converting the data to another format (e.g. MySQL to PGSQL) is a
> modification. Even extracting a polygon is a modification.

Extracting a polygon is a modification but can you not separate the
steps:

1. Original OSM data
2. extract polygon, get a derived database, which you have to make
   available
3. use the derived database, in unmodified form, and combine it with 
   your own data to make a collective database

Your own data would never take part in the formation of a derived
database in this case.

Bye
Frederik

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