[OSM-legal-talk] Paid services from OSM

[Richard Fairhurst]

Dair Grant wrote:

> Richard Fairhurst wrote:
>
>>> b. A file containing all of the alterations made to the Database  
>>> offered
>>>    under this Licence, including any additional Data, that make  
>>> up all the
>>>    differences between the Database and the Derivative Database.
>
> Assuming I choose option (b), how does this work if the alterations  
> are all
> subtractions?
> [...]
> But it does seem a bit like jumping through hoops, when it would be  
> simpler
> to say "I truncated all coordinates to 4 decimal places" or even  
> "the DD is
> a subset of the information in version X of the D, and here's a  
> copy of
> that".

IMO (and insert all the other abbreviations here), "I truncated all  
coordinates to 4 decimal places" is a valid diff. If people want to  
get pissy about "machine readable", then supply the diff as a Perl  
script which comprises some XML parsing and a load of sprintf. ;)

cheers
Richard