[OSM-legal-talk] Exception in Open Data License/Community Guidelines for temporary file

James Livingston lists at sunsetutopia.com
Wed Jun 29 04:21:46 BST 2011


On 23 June 2011 03:29, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> In today's operating systems, whether something is in a file or in memory
> is a boundary that might easily get blurred. It would be kind of strange if
> one algorithm that chooses to build a giant data structure in memory (using,
> for example, a lot of swap space) would be treated differently from another
> algorithm that does exactly the same, but writes its data out to a temporary
> file (which might be a database).
>

I don't think it would be treated differently, because I believe that an
in-memory data structure would still be a database (in the ODbL and database
right sense of "database"). I don't see how the storage mechanism makes a
difference.

-- 
James
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