[OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Navigon to Sell OpenStreetMap POIs Packages for PNDs

andrzej zaborowski balrogg at gmail.com
Tue Jun 14 15:01:17 BST 2011


On 14 June 2011 15:51, Jonas Krückel <jonasxk at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am 14.06.2011 um 15:43 schrieb andrzej zaborowski:
> On 14 June 2011 15:29, Jonas Krückel <jonasxk at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Once we move on to ODbL however, this will change and we will get
>> the much more interesting 'raw' data.
>
> Which we can't re-use in OSM however.
>
> Maybe you should explain why not, because from my understanding this data
> would be in an OSM compatible license because of the share-a-like aspect of
> ODbL [1].

That means we can mix it with OSM, but not contribute it back to OSM
because the new contributor terms don't allow using ODbL licensed
data.

>
> Someone on IRC mentioned that the situation would be clearer under
> ODbL, too, but I think this is a false positive.  Additionally with
> ODbL Navigon may take the position that they made a produced work.
>
> Yes, their POI packages maybe produced work and could be proprietary, but
> they would still have to release the processed OSM data from in between,
> which as I stated above might be more interesting to us.
> All that is only on how I understand the license and I'm not an expert on
> this.

I'm not an expert either, perhaps you're right they'd have to release
the processed data.

> Also, I think it would be appropriate to continue this discussion on
> legal-talk.

Ok.

Cheers



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