[OSM-legal-talk] ODbL comments from Creative Commons

[Liz]

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Andy Allan wrote:
> I disagree with you there Steve. The problem is that *we're the guys
> building the engine*, and yet we don't know how the engine management
> system works.
>
> Whilst it doesn't need to be simple enough for *everyone* to
> understand (you can do the "I trust him and he knows what he's talking
> about" approach that you take with your car), when I can't get my head
> around how the license impacts the OpenCycleMap operations (am I
> running a collective or derived db? Do I need to release PostGIS
> dumps? Can I CC-BY-SA license the tiles?) then there is a complexity
> problem, and it probably needs more serious addressing than dismissing
> it as "superfluous".

My attention has just been drawn (by the latest new Scientist magazine in my 
house) to http://www.wikimapaid.org/a/wikimapaid and 
http://www.wikicrimes.org
which are both built on google map data.

In the current situation, no-one can decide to build one of these on OSM 
because the definitions have not been given on (for example) "What is a 
derived database?"

I have to say that I cannot vote for this licence over the previous one, 
because not enough information has been made available concerning the 
peripheral issues, which concern exactly how we will use the database.

Liz