[OSM-legal-talk] Computer-generated derivative

Richard Fairhurst richard at systemeD.net
Mon Mar 9 11:10:11 GMT 2009


Hello all,

This isn't (shock horror) specifically a licence-change post.

If Fred has a program running on his computer that downloads OSM  
data, then combines it with some proprietary, non-CC-BY-SA stuff,  
that's perfectly ok as long as Fred doesn't then distribute the  
result. In fact, Fred isn't actually _allowed_ to distribute the result.

And therefore, I presume the same is true if the program is a Flash  
app (running client-side, of course, albeit with a browser frame  
around it) which outputs the result as a PDF - which Fred can then  
save to his local hard drive and/or print. Right?

cheers
Richard




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