[OSM-legal-talk] section 4.6 of ODbL was [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

[Rob Myers]

On 19/06/11 22:15, David Groom wrote:
>
>  From reading section 4.6 of ODbL[1] my understanding is no. There is no
> mention of it only applying if you change the data, the requirement
> seems to hold whenever
> "You Publicly Use a Derivative Database or a Produced Work from a
> Derivative Database,"
>
> However, the more I think about it, the more insane the above seems to
> be, so I'm sure it cant be true, and someone will point out something
> which overrides section 4.6

No, it's been raised on odc-discuss but not addressed.

This is the equivalent of being required to provide source if you 
distribute a binary under the GPL, I think.

The scale is a bit different though...

- Rob.