[OSM-legal-talk] New license and mechanically created derivations

[Ben Supnik]

Hi,

I have read a draft of the ODbL and I fear I don't understand the 
implications entirely...

I would like to build a mechanically created non-factual work - that 
work will have as its input data non-factual data created by my fellow 
employees (we own rights to it) and OSM.

(This is a virtual earth situation where I build "plausible" 3-d models 
from OSM data and rules.)

Under the old scheme (assuming OSM was non-factual) I would simply put 
the derived result under CC-BY-SA and go home happy. :-)

I can't tell what I am required to do with the ODbL.  It appears that 
there are _no_ restrictions on how I license/distribute my derived work 
as long as:

- I don't change the OSM data and then hoard it (I do all my edits in 
OSM and not later) and
- My derived work isn't anything like a database.

Are there parts of OSM that might be non-factual, and if so, what would 
the corresponding copyright-based license be?


My goal here is not to see how much I can get for how little...just to 
understand how to use OSM data such that (1) I am following the 
intentions of those licensing the data and (2) avoiding legal risk to my 
company.

If there is anything semi-official and current, please let me know and I 
apologize for not RTFMing...most of what I've found is at least a few 
months old.

thanks!!!
Ben

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