[OSM-legal-talk] ODbL "virality" questions

[Richard Shank]

Matt Amos wrote:
> as a concrete example, let's pretend i have a site, beerintheOSM,
> which rates pubs and allows commenting and photo uploads. if i'm
> storing the reviews linked against pubs linked against OSM
> (name/location/ID), i definitely have to release the
> (name/location/ID) records - that's not up for discussion. should i
> also have to release the reviews, comments and photos records despite
> the fact that they have no OSM-derived data in them? should i have to
> release my entire database, including my users table?
>   
I sincerely hope this is not the case.  It would greatly restrict what 
people could do with the data.  That really doesn't sound like "free" 
data, if that is the case.

Richard