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

Ed Avis eda at waniasset.com
Thu Nov 18 13:32:27 GMT 2010


Rob Myers <rob at ...> writes:

>>>>It's allowed to make proprietary, all-rights-reserved
>>>>map renderings, but if you want to produce a truly CC-licensed or public
>>>>domain one you can't.  (This refers to the no-tracing restrictions; an
>>>>attribution requirement is more reasonable.)

>If someone tries to launder or teleport ODbL data using produced works, 
>they should and will fail.

Do you mean to say that the earlier statement is true - that it's not possible
to produce truly public domain, unrestricted map tiles or printed maps from
the ODbL data?

Or do you just mean that trying to trace from such maps would be a futile
exercise, although not actually prohibited by law?

-- 
Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>




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