[OSM-legal-talk] "A Creative Commons iCommons license"

Gustav Foseid gustavf at gmail.com
Sat Feb 28 18:45:44 GMT 2009


On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> I always thought that the reverse engineering provision would apply
> automatically through the database directive, so even if we allowed a
> Produced Work to be PD then reassembling them into a database would
> still make that database protected, but this was perhaps seen too much
> through European eyes.


The database directive does not stop you from making a geographic database,
rendering it as a map and then releasing it under something like CC0. I am a
bit unsure what kind of restriction the database directive could possibly
have placed on that map.

 - Gustav
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