[OSM-legal-talk] CC-BY-SA / Non-separatable combination of OSM+other
Rob Myers
rob at robmyers.org
Wed Feb 2 18:10:32 GMT 2011
On 02/02/2011 05:49 PM, Jonathan Harley wrote:
>
> 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
Where multiple sources of bits are combined to produce a single new
work, that new work is a derivative of each source.
> 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.
Combining multiple elements into a new derivative work is not the same
as mechanically transforming a single element to produce a new
derivative work.
It is easy to distinguish them conceptually, legally, and in the licence.
> But I don't think that "rendered" is a sensible meaning of "modified" in
"Combined and printed" is, though.
> this context, any more than changing the font or line length would be
> considered modifying a text.
Modifying font or line length might not change a text but it would
certainly change the typographic arrangement.
- Rob.
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