[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 16:50:44 BST 2010


On 09/03/2010 03:58 PM, Anthony wrote:
> But it means, in
> non-database-rights jurisdictions, that the extracted data isn't ODbL
> either (unless you were dumb enough to agree to the ODbL, anyway).

It does not mean that at all. If the extracted data is Substantial 
enough to be covered by copyright on the database, the ODbL applies and 
it is a Derivative Database.

(I should add to all of these comments that IANAL, TINLA, etc.)

- Rob.



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