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

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

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Tom Hughes wrote:
| In message <223020e60802040616o6b9562cbtcbd13a1e22dab768 at mail.gmail.com>
|         Nick Black <nickblack1 at gmail.com> wrote:
|
|> On Feb 4, 2008 11:41 AM, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
|>
|>> I believe so, yes. A shapefile would be a derived database and hence
|>> would have to be licensed on the same terms I believe.
|>>
|>>> How about putting my propriety data and OSM together locked within an
|>>> in-car sat nav system. Would this be classed as distribution of the
|>>> database? What should my company do in this case?
|>> Clearly that is distribution of the database so 4.6(b) would require
|>> you to make an unrestricted version available.
|> Unless it becomes a Collective Database, in which case the share-alike
|> clauses (4.4) do not apply.  From my reading of the license, it looks
|> like a lot of use cases will hinge on an interpretation of a
|> Collective Database.  So if I take TIGER, some of my own GPS points
|> and some OSM data, put them into a Shapefile and distribute them, then
|> share-alike does not apply.  4.6b also does not apply to a Collective
|> Database.
|
| I think that distinction is actually fairly clear in that if you
| have two separate shape files (or whatever format you choose) one
| with the OSM data and one with other stuff then that is collective
| but it you put it all in one common file that is derivative.

So if I create a MySQL database called osm with OSM data and create
another database called rjmunro with proprietary data on the same DB
server, and I do a query like "select * from osm.points inner join
rjmunro.descriptions", I don't have to share my descriptions, but if my
ISP only lets me have one database with multiple tables, so I name my
tables with a prefix, and my query becomes "select * from osm_points
inner join rjmunro_descriptions", then I have to share my data? Or only
if MySQL happens to put both tables in the same InnoDB data file?

That's only a clear definition if you are using simple shapefiles on a
conventional filesystem. What if I am using something like WinFS, where
(in theory) every file is just a blob in a huge database?


Robert (Jamie) Munro
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