[OSM-legal-talk] Database and its contents (was: Best license for future tiles?)

Ed Avis eda at waniasset.com
Mon Nov 22 22:25:46 GMT 2010


80n <80n80n at ...> writes:

>The relationship between ODbL and DbCL is not very clear and I'm not convinced
>that lawyers really understand the distinction between a database and it's
>content.  I'm certain that it isn't understood by most ordinary people.

I work with databases every day and I don't understand how the 'database' versus
'contents' distinction is meant to apply to maps and to OSM in particular.

Does anybody?

-- 
Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>




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