[OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: incompatibility issues

Gustav Foseid gustavf at gmail.com
Mon Mar 2 07:38:10 GMT 2009


On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Not so, it turns out; the "Produced Work" freedom allows us to combine
> OSM data *only* with other data whose license does not prohibit the
> addition of constraints, because ODbL mandates that we add the "reverse
> engineering leads to ODbL licensing" rule.



I do not read the ODbL this way. I read that only persons bound by the
license/contract are prohibited from reverse engineering. Clarification here
is needed.

 - Gustav
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