[OSM-legal-talk] Paid services from OSM

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

El Jueves, 9 de Octubre de 2008, Frederik Ramm escribió:
> Hi,
>
> Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote:
> >> *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.
>
> Not sure... what if the tools to perform the extraction are publicly
> available but creating the extract takes a lot of resources (say, a 64
> GB RAM machine running for a week to do the extract). Would people not
> come to me and request that I make my extract available to them because
> they can't be bothered to go through the steps for creating it themselves?

No, they will come to you for other reasons :-P

Namely, by spending that time, IIRC, you have created a derived DB (you have 
changed the format of the data). You have to let people extract data from 
*that* DB.

In other words: in this scenario, providing documentation on how you did the 
whole process seems quite useless (from a legal point of view, anyway).


Cheers,
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