[OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

[John Smith]

On 18 June 2011 00:06, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 06/17/11 11:18, John Smith wrote:
>>>
>>> Only if the amount of data traced is not substantial.
>>
>> CC-by-SA makes no such distinction, it's either cc-by-sa or it's not
>> cc-by-sa, so which license can tiles be put under?
>
> Sorry, I thought you had asked about tracing from tiles.
>
> Tiles can be put under CC-BY-SA with no problem; in fact the main OSM
> tileserver is likely to do that.
>
> A database created by tracing from these tiles might however be subject to
> the limitations I have outlined in my previous email. Whether or not
> CC-BY-SA makes such a distinction or not is not relevant. I tried to explain
> this by referring to the related case of patents (here, too, CC-BY-SA makes
> no distinction), but I understand it is a difficult concept to grasp.

Database restrictions don't concern me, as there is no DB directives
or similar in most of the world, and I don't find any of this
difficult to grasp, but I do keep getting conflicting answers from
those promoting the new license.