[OSM-legal-talk] images are Produced Works
Andy Allan
gravitystorm at gmail.com
Tue Mar 3 11:29:04 GMT 2009
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
> My position is that images are Produced Works, not a derived OSM
> database.
>
> Rendered images are a creative work that requires skill and judgement.
>
> This is an important use case and ODbL Section 1 Definitions
> specifically includes "images" in the definition of Produced Work.
Cool, I definitely agree with you on this, when considering the cycle map.
However, instead of rasters, what about vector images, e.g. SVG? To me
they could be construed as mini databases, since they're a structured
list of attributes and properties. I'd be interested in what you think
on this.
Cheers,
Andy
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