[OSM-legal-talk] Reverse-Engineering Maps and Share-Alike Licences

[Russ Nelson]

On Mar 7, 2009, at 4:10 PM, Gervase Markham wrote:
> 4) A Produced Work is not a Derivative Database, and so does not fall
> under the ODbL. The ODbL is designed to allow you to license Produced
> Works however you choose.

It's not a derivative database until you start to make it such, in  
which case you're distributing the database ... just in a different  
format.  Remember: judges aren't stupid (mostly).  They really don't  
like it when you try to fool them by subterfuges like using a produced  
work to create a copy of the database.

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