[OSM-legal-talk] License License License

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 13.10.2008, at 04:42, Peter Miller wrote:
> No, please don't do that yet!

It was too late already ;-) but I had promised a Geman version of the  
current draft for about half a year to it would not have been ok to  
let them wait any longer.

> If you translate anything into German then can you translate the  
> Brief that
> we have been talking about on this list?

I'll do that and of course inform them of the bits we're discussing.

> 1) Clarified the difference between automatic processing of the  
> Dataset
> (which is not a Derivate Database) and adding additional  
> information (which
> does).

I like what you wrote but I think it still leaves room for questions.  
We should decide on where the border line is, exactly.

Suppose I am a statistics wizard. I take the planet file and run it  
through any number of processing steps, using a lot of my proprietary  
knowledge and experience and algorithms I have created and whatnot,  
to produce interesting evaluations and nice maps suggesting, for  
example, what the quality of life is in certain areas or so. I offer  
these maps on my web site for anyone to use.

What part of my "internal process" I used to arrive at these maps do  
I have to make public? I will most likely have created a number of  
derived databases along the way, not adding factual info or  
correcting OSM mistakes or so, but still I will have enriched the  
data by e.g. creating all kinds of time consuming statistical  
analyses on top of it. Would this database have to be published along  
with my "integrated experience"?

I'm not asking about what the current license draft says, I'm asking  
what we (the community) want from the user of our data in such cases.

Bye
Frederik

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