[OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: Who is the licensor / whose "database" is it?

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote:
> A *database* is a bunch of stuff in my computer's RAM. *Any* stuff at all.

It need not even be in your computer's RAM. And not everything in your 
computer's RAM is a database (it needs to have been arranged 
systematically or methodically).

> Database *protection* is granted only to DBs that have had a subtantial 
> investment on them.

That's how I read it too.

> - I did not invest much time while drawing these two pub nodes in $EDITOR, but 
> I'll only upload them if you slap a ODbL to them the moment they are  
> integrated in the main DB.

That was what I meant with the number 3 in my original post, yes ;-)

Bye
Frederik

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