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

[Anthony]

>>> "If it was intended for the extraction of the original data, then it is a
>>> database and not a Produced Work. Otherwise it is a Produced Work."
>>>
>>> See
>>>
>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Produced_Work_-_Guideline.
>>
>> LOL, I hope you go with that definition.
>
> Actually, I liked an earlier version better: "If someone makes something
> from an ODbL dataset and declares it a Produced Work, then it is considered
> a Produced Work." - It is refreshingly simple and doesn't actually open any
> loopholes because even if you took the full DB and put the PostGIS dump on a
> CD declaring it a Produced Work, someone who used it would fall under the
> reverse engineering clause.

Yes, the current version opens up far *more* loopholes.  Having a
Derivative Database treated as a Produced Work isn't the problem.
Having a Produced Work treated as a Derivative Database is.

Of course, I hope you go with the definition with the most loopholes.
I don't like ODbL.