[OSM-legal-talk] Licence brief/Use Case - final call forcomments
Richard Fairhurst
richard at systemeD.net
Wed Oct 15 14:47:39 BST 2008
Frederik Ramm wrote:
> What leads you to assume that your .ai files are databases?
>
> They're computer readable and they have individual objects that can
> be accessed... but what file hasn't?
From ODBL: "Database A collection of Data arranged in a systematic
or methodical way and individually accessible by electronic or other
means offered under the terms of this Licence."
But I wouldn't say the .ai file is a database, it _contains_ a database.
> At what stage of processing would they, in your eyes, stop being
> databases?
A sufficiently accurate, computer-produced map of the real world
always contains a database IMO.
cheers
Richard
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