[OSM-legal-talk] Licence restrictions on Produced Works?

Peter Miller peter.miller at itoworld.com
Fri Feb 27 16:42:49 GMT 2009


The legal council response to Use Case 1 says (in part) 'The ODbL  
imposes no license restrictions on the Produced Works, although it  
does restrict reverse engineering the Produced Work in order to re- 
create the Database and place it under a different license.'

This says clearly that there is no restriction on the licence used by  
Produced Works.

And section 4.7 of the licence says: For the avoidance of doubt,  
creating a Produced Work, and then re- creating the whole or a  
Substantial part of the Data found in this Database, a Derivative  
Database, or a Database that is part of a Collective Database from the  
Produced Work, is still subject to this Licence. Any product of this  
type of reverse engineering activity (whether done by You or on Your  
behalf by a third party) is governed by this License.

I have two questions:

1) Where  in the licence does it say that a Produced Works can be  
licenced any way one wants? Have I missed something obvious?

2) If one can produce a PD printed map from OSM data then how can one  
impose restrictions on what someone can do with it or force people to  
acknowledge the source? Possibly my legal knowledge is not up to it,  
but I thought the whole thing about PD was that there were no  
restrictions.


Regards,



Peter

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