[OSM-legal-talk] Would The ODbL and BY-SA Clash In A Database Extracted From a BY-SA Produced Work?

Rob Myers rob at robmyers.org
Fri Sep 3 16:48:40 BST 2010


On 09/03/2010 03:52 PM, Anthony wrote:
>
> The interesting part of the question is whether or not it's allowed to
> create a BY-SA Produced Work which is a mash-up of BY-SA and ODbL
> data, and if so, whether that makes the ODbL data BY-SA.

That's a different question, to which the answer is no. Quoting an 
all-rights-reserved text in a BY-SA article doesn't make the ARR text 
BY-SA either. BY-SA doesn't cover what it can't cover.

> Ah, if you meant "Covered Database" you shouldn't have said "database"
> :).  Produced Work and Covered Database are mutually exclusive.
> Produced Work and database are not.

A Derivative Database is not a Produced Work. And "map" and "database" 
are mutually exclusive practically and legally speaking. The ODbL has 
the ability to recognise these differences.

- Rob.



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