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

[Anthony]

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:
> On 09/05/2010 06:01 AM, Anthony wrote:
>> And then the ODbL says you can do certain things provided you meet
>> certain conditions?
>
> Yes. DB right covers the whole

Maybe.  OSM existed two years before OSMF, so OSMF would probably have
a pretty tough time claiming that it is the maker of the database.

>, and copyright may cover the DB or the aggregated contents.

Yes, but only in certain situations.

> I think that it's the same with OSM: DbCL ensures that OSM can apply ODbL to
> the result of combining all the individual contributions.

1) I assume by "OSM" you mean OSMF.
2) The "worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable
license to do any act that is restricted by copyright over anything
within the Contents, whether in the original medium or any other"
gives them that.