[OSM-legal-talk] Collective database

Henk Hoff osm at toffehoff.nl
Tue Jun 7 01:37:40 BST 2011


Hi Kirill,

If you want to clarify "as deep as possible" you might also want to 
check with OpenDataCommons (ODC), the authors of the license.

Their mailinglist can be found here: 
http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/odc-discuss

cheers,
Henk

Op 06-06-11 13:46, Kirill Bestoujev schreef:
> Frederik, thanks for the reply.
>
> Do we have somewhere a more detailed description of collective 
> database relating to OSM situation? May be some lawyers opinion or 
> something else? Previously we were looking at the situation in a 
> different way and suddenly understood that our positions is not very 
> clear, so we would like to clarify the situation as deep as possible.
>
> Kirill
>
> On 06.06.2011 15:40, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 06/06/11 12:56, Kirill Bestoujev wrote:
>>> The resulting map (a single file) contains data from both
>>> sources. Can this resulting map (which is a database by its inside
>>> structure) treated as a collective database?
>>
>> I believe so. In my opinion, a derived database would result if you 
>> were to mix other data with OSM data in a way that actually looks at 
>> the OSM data - for example, if you have an OSM database of streets, 
>> and then add to that streets from another dataset but only where OSM 
>> had nothing. That would be a derived database. But if you have two 
>> datasets that live side-by-side in the same physical database, I 
>> would say that is a collective database.
>>
>> Bye
>> Frederik
>>
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