[OSM-legal-talk] CC-BY-SA / Non-separatable combination of OSM+other

[Richard Fairhurst]

Jonathan Harley wrote:
> Clearly no rendering of any map is going to be unmodified in the 
> sense of having identical sequences of 0s and 1s to the database, 
> in which case there could be no such thing as a collective work 
> based on a database, ever.

For print, yes, that's about the size of it.

It illustrates that CC have a mountain to climb in making CC 4.0 relevant to
databases, and I (genuinely) wish them luck.

Electronically, you could perhaps layer one database (represented as
pushpins, say) on top of another (represented as other pushpins, or a
polyline, or even a map), in a separable way (e.g. layers can be switched
off), and call it a collective work. OSM users have traditionally permitted
this, but I believe Rob generally refers to it as a "consensual
hallucination". :)

cheers
Richard


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