[OSM-legal-talk] Lawyer responses to use cases, major problems

[Sunburned Surveyor]

Frederick Ramm wrote: "I'm surprised that nobody else seems to see a
problem in this. Am I
perhaps barking up some completely imaginary tree?"

It seems like some others definitely share your concern. Thank you for
bringing up the issue.

Simon Ward wrote: "It gets more difficult when you start providing
things like place name
searching:  Is that still acceptably a produced work, or are you
providing access to the database?  I would err towards providing the
database."

I think this thread has identified a critical issue for the new
license. We need a clear distinction between a database and a produced
work. At one end of the spectrum we have a relational database, at the
other end we have raster image, and in the middle we have something
like SVG.

So where do we draw the line between a database and a derived work?
How do we describe this line in the license?

The Sunburned Surveyor

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Dair Grant wrote:
>> I don't have a better phrasing for 4.6b, but I would like to allow
>> alterations to be specified as:
>>
>>   - A literal set of transformations to apply (e.g., a lookup table
>>     or code that could be executed to apply the transform).
>
> Sorry, I somehow overlooked this part of your post so repeated the
> suggestion in mine. But as I said in my post, I'm not even sure if we
> want to request things like "I instructed my PostGIS database to build
> this clever index" be shared or if we are content to say that we only
> want sharing where original data comes into play. ("I wrote a random
> number generator and introduced 2,000 nodes at random into the database"
> -> not share; "I opened up an editor and added 2,000 post boxes" ->
> share... don't know.)
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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