[OSM-legal-talk] Open Maps Data

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

El Lunes, 12 de Octubre de 2009, SteveC escribió:
> bouncing to legal-talk

On 7 Oct 2009, at 18:50, Brendan Bowen wrote:
[...]
> The documentary [...] follows a 50-cyclist ride through outback Queensland,
> over a distance of 1800 km. The graphics I am doing up chart this
> distance and I am looking to use OSM for this purpose.

> The problem I have obviously is the Share-Alike part of the
> copyright

OK, first of all, we OSMers want share-alike because we want to hoard more 
geodata. We really don't mind about movies which include 10 seconds of maps.


That said, my point of view is that share-alike should apply only to the data 
nearing the maps you show - e.g. the shape and waypoints of the 1800 km ride 
you draw on top of that. 


Anyway, this is one of the borderline cases where the new license (ODbL) is 
needed because CC-by-sa doesn't fit too well. Brendan, just know that there 
has been a lot of talk about this kind of things here in the legal-talk 
mailing list, and most people actually want to encourage this kind of use. 
With the ODbL, the share-alike component dissapears as soon as you take the 
map out of map editing software and into the video stream.


Hope this clears it out,
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Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>

Un ordenador no es un televisor ni un microondas, es una herramienta compleja.
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