[OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: incompatibility issues

Peter Miller peter.miller at itoworld.com
Mon Mar 2 08:08:58 GMT 2009


On 2 Mar 2009, at 07:38, Gustav Foseid wrote:

> 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.

When we find an issue like this then lets document it on the wiki and  
move on to the next topic. We have identified at least two so far, 1)  
When is a 'DB and derived DB' and now 'what licensing applies to  
Produced Works and how does the 'no reverse engineering' clause work  
with PD images.



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>  - Gustav
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