[OSM-legal-talk] OSM layer into Adobe Illustrator?

[Richard Fairhurst]

OJW wrote:

> On Tuesday 27 February 2007 11:53, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
>> A map is not just geodata. A (good) map is a piece of art that uses  
>> geodata as source material.
>
> So if you make a beautifully-illustrated copy of the inkscape source code,
> that shouldn't be GPL?

"Shouldn't" is up to the copyright holder(s), of course!

What I'd say is that it is certainly possible to come up with a  
licence where the _illustration_ needn't be copyleft, but the source  
code would still be copyleft.

> Isn't that just saying that artists are more worthy than data-gatherers?  Why
> should they get paid for the joint work, and the data gatherers not?

I'm not saying that one's more worthy than another[1], just that  
they're separate fields of endeavour which need not have the same  
licence.

cheers
Richard

[1] although US case law _does_ say that, and according to Kristian's  
posting, so does Danish law...