[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 17:45:45 BST 2010


On 09/03/2010 05:27 PM, Anthony wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Rob Myers<rob at robmyers.org>  wrote:
>> The rights on the database are not the same as the rights on the contents of
>> the database. That's why the DbCL exists.
>>
>>> but it's hard to see how you can
>>> protect an unordered (or trivially ordered) collection of data which
>>> individually are DbCL.
>>
>> " ""
>
> But the extract is not the database.  It may be *a* database, but it's
> not *the* database that's protected by ODbL.

Then if it contains a Substantial portion of the Database its *a* 
Derivative Database. (Capitalised words refer to ODbL term definitions.)

- Rob.



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