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

Anthony osm at inbox.org
Tue Sep 7 16:13:11 BST 2010


On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> 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:
>> 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.

3) OSMF *doesn't* combine the individual contributions.  They just
provide the hardware which allows us to do so.



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