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

[Jonathan Harley]

On 02/02/11 17:05, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> 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.

I don't see what print's got to do with it. Any rendering, whether to 
paper or to a screen, changes the bits used; if you take that as the 
meaning of modified, then there could be no "unmodified" renderings of 
any database, which means in turn that there could be no collective 
works, so the conditions about being separate and independent would be 
irrelevant.

But I don't think that "rendered" is a sensible meaning of "modified" in 
this context, any more than changing the font or line length would be 
considered modifying a text.


Jonathan.

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