[OSM-legal-talk] Cloudmade

Adrian osmmail at ajw.me.uk
Fri Oct 3 20:59:41 BST 2008


> Another example: I could take a planet dump, make a derivated product, and 
> *not* release it into the public. You could then buy it from me, and you 
> would *not* be bound to release it to the public for free. You could, though, 
> possibly lowering the possibilities of me selling a second copy for money 
> (depending on the novelty of my product).

Thanks for this explanation, and for the other responses, I'm now a bit 
happier!

I had sort of assumed that "share alike" meant, well, sharing on the 
same terms.

Presumably then using a OSM data to produce travel directions is all 
fine if the end point coordinates are known. If, other the other hand, 
the start and end points (sorry, this is going to get UK specific) are 
postcodes and the coordinates derived from Code-Point then the route 
will be derived from both Ordnance Survey data and OSM data.

In this situation using the route internally would be OK, but 
distributing it outside of an organisation would be impossible (because 
of OS copyright?) Or would it the recipient just be unable to exercise 
their CC-By-SA rights?






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