[OSM-legal-talk] Paid services from OSM
Iván Sánchez Ortega
ivan at sanchezortega.es
Thu Oct 9 00:13:17 BST 2008
El Jueves, 9 de Octubre de 2008, Frederik Ramm escribió:
> Maybe the license needs some provision that says you *either* have to
> make your derived database public
-1, counterproductive.
Think DFSG, the dissident test.
> *or* provide documentation that
> explains how you created the database using publicly available tools
> from publicly available sources.
-1, redundant.
If you *just* used publicly available sources, other users can already extract
data from those sources - there is no obligation for you.
> Another thing we could do is put in a provision that says if your data
> is permanently updated, it is sufficient to provide regular snapshots to
> the public instead of the live thing.
+1, insightful.
I suggest that ODbL section 3.1 ("Licensor grants you a worldwide,
royalty-free, yadda yadda license to Use the DB") should include the
words "reasonable to the medium". That would allow parties to release the
data in such a way so their servers would not overload.
Keep in mind that (AFAIK) the ODbL is meant to be a generic copyleft license
for databases, so talking about weekly planet dumps, or even "snapshots" is
not OK.
(Note to self: stop reading slashdot that often)
Cheers,
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