[OSM-legal-talk] ODbL for the DB; what about the contents?

[Simon Ward]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 01:37:19AM +0200, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote:
> > I believe many contributions would deserve some protection in their own
> > right, they’re not simply “facts”.  How will this be handled?
> 
> Well, my point of view is that individual bits of OSM data are indeed facts. 
> Could you ellaborate some use case where some piece of OSM data would require 
> some protection on its own?

Almost anything where you have had to work something out.  Extrapolation
of the path of a way from your GPS traces or photos.  Maybe you didn’t
survey the river you know runs parallel to a road but made an “educated
guess” to where it should be.  Those examples are all (varyingly) more
than just simple facts (and in some cases could be seen to be complete
works of fiction).

Simon
-- 
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a
simple system that works.—John Gall
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