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

[Thomas]

>>> If I use software that builds an in-memory data structure which you

>>> believe to be a database in order to make a produced work, how
>>> would you suggest that I fulfil my obligation to make such derived
>>> database available on request?
>> 
>> I have absolutely no idea. It's one of the many things I don't know
>> about how the produced works part of the ODbL will work in practice.

>Thinking about this more, the problem would only occur if you have a black-box software wich might or might not create a database internally, and the thing that falls out of the black box is a >produced work that you will publicly use.
>
>Because then, and only then, will you have to share the derived database upon which the produced work is based.

No, this happens with all software, regardless of the software license. Who is reading the source code of a free software just to know if creates internal database?
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