[OSM-legal-talk] Share-A-Like (non-) Verifiability because they are not publicly accessable

Jukka Rahkonen jukka.rahkonen at latuviitta.fi
Thu Jun 24 10:45:28 BST 2010


Richard Fairhurst <richard at ...> writes:
 
> Jukka Rahkonen wrote:
> > Andy Allan writes:
> >> If they have geographic data that we don't have, and they mix it 
> >> with OSM data, then the whole point is that we end up with access 
> >> to their geographic data.
> > [...]
> > You are obviously reading section 4.5 in a different way that I do.   
> > [...]
> > For me it looks like business users can feel safe with their data if they 
> > do not make derivative databases, for example by enhancing their 
> > own data by taking tags from OSM database. Drawing their own data 
> > on top of OSM basemap is OK, isn't it?
> 
> Which fits in exactly with what Andy said. 
> 
> The key word is "mix".

Ok, I missed the meaning of "mix". Thus our advice for Oliver about the cable
network is not to mix the private data with OSM data inside his own copy of OSM
database. It will be OK to render OSM basemap tiles and use for example a
separate WFS-T service [1] for showing and editing the cable network vectors.
Users must just take care that they do not edit cable lines according to what
they see on the OSM map, otherwise all of the cable network data will be
considered to be derived from OSM data and thus fall under odbl.

[1] Openlayers example combining tiles and WFS-T
http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/OpenLayers-2.9.1/examples/
wfs-protocol-transactions.html

-Jukka-

> 
> cheers
> Richard








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