[OSM-legal-talk] License Use Case

[Xavier Loiseau]

Hi Andrzej,



Thank you for your previous answer !



Case A

Let us suppose (as you mentioned) that the addresses are published.
I think that some users of the web site might consider that there is a privacy issue.
At least, I think that there is a privacy issue when a user provides his own address.



Case B

Let us suppose now (as you mentioned) that a piece of code is published instead of the addresses.
I understand from the 4.6 section (quoted below) of the ODbL that the addresses can be retrieved anyway.
Therefore, in any case  (A or B), I think that there is a privacy issue.

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4.6 Access to Derivative Databases. If You Publicly Use a Derivative Database or a Produced Work from a Derivative Database, You must also offer to recipients of the Derivative Database or Produced Work a copy in a machine readable form of:
a. The entire Derivative Database; or
b. A file containing all of the alterations made to the Database or the method of making the alterations to the Database (such as an algorithm), including any additional Contents, that make up all the differences between the Database and the Derivative Database.
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Summary

Here is my current understanding:
- If the CC-BY-SA license is used, then there is not any privacy issue since the addresses do not have to be published,
- If the ODbL license is used instead, then there is a privacy issue since the addresses have to be published.

Is my understanding correct ?

Or is there any solution to protect the privacy while complying with the ODbL license ?



Thank you very much for your help.



Xavier

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