[OSM-legal-talk] Concerns about ODbL

[OJ W]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> OJ W wrote:
>> the ability to create an uncopiable map image from OSM data
>> does seem to have appeared in the ODbL license?
>
> You can create an image and (provided that your image is not a data
> base, a distinction that has not yet been resolved) restrict copying of
> the image.
>
> This is essential if we want to give users the chance to combine OSM
> material with other, more restrictively licensed material, into images
> or other products.

Exactly, so the ODbL has a political choice to license OSM map images
as PD (that can trivially be made uncopiable) where previously we
guaranteed that all map images would be freely copiable.  Whether this
is "essential" hasn't been explained - it certainly isn't essential to
the creation of free maps.