[OSM-legal-talk] Are Produced Works anti-share alike?

[Simon Ward]

On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 07:19:50PM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> yesterday. (I'm a bit miffed that neither you nor any of the respondents 
> seem to follow relevant stuff on the Wiki. Or well, maybe you all did 
> and just found my contribution not worthy of note. Sigh.) In that 
> section, I make two concrete suggestions how to remedy this; one being 
> the explicit exception of a list of share-alike licenses from the 
> reverse engineering clause, the other being a clarification of the ODbL 
> reverse engineering clause to *only* work for those cases where the 
> whole thing happens in an orchestrated fashion

Another option is for share‐alike licences to acknowledge the potential
for a work to be produced from a database.  It may insist that the terms
of the database be in some way compatible:  Database is free, produced
work is free, share with others, be happeeeee!  Or it could state that
it doesn’t cover the rights of an underlying database in any way, and
exempt it from the “no extra conditions” of share‐alike, pretty much as
the ODbL claims no coverage of copyright on the data.  Unfortunately, I
don’t see either of those happening any time soon.

Simon
-- 
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a
simple system that works.—John Gall
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