[OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

Anthony osm at inbox.org
Sat Jul 24 17:03:17 BST 2010


On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:
>
>> "    * Limitations make it difficult or ambiguous for others to use OSM
>> data in a new work (eg mashups) "
>>
>> The ODbL codifies OSM's consensual haullucination that mash-ups are not
>> derivative works. ;-)
>>
>
> Personally I disagree with that hallucination.  A mash-up is a derivative
> work.  In fact, I'd say it's pretty much the quintessential example of the
> derivative work.
>

Furthermore, the idea of "Produced Works" doesn't work.  As I've asked
several times now, and never gotten a response, what stops someone from
taking a Produced Work released under CC-BY and extracting the data back out
of the Produced Work, thereby obtaining the data under CC-BY.
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