[OSM-legal-talk] Best license for future tiles?

[80n]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:19 PM, 80n <80n80n at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Anyone care to point to the language in ODbL that would stop someone
> tracing
> > from a Produced Work? I really havn't been able to find it.
>
> If tracing (a map) is considered copying (and that's a question of law
> which is not exactly clear), then the question is not what in the ODbL
> stops you from tracing, the question is what in the ODbL allows you to
> trace.
>
> ODbL specifically and explicitly gives you the right to create a Produced
Work with which you can do whatever you like.  The only restrictions are
those specified in 4.3 as quoted above.

If there were other restrictions you wouldn't be able to create a Produced
Work that was publishable under PD, CC0, WTFPL, CC-BY-SA etc.




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