[OSM-legal-talk] Does routing based on OSM data lead to a derived or assembled work?

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

mg040 wrote:
> Is the database containing all user's personal routes to be put under 
> CC-BY?

CC-BY-SA, if anything.

The routes are clearly derived works from OSM data (because they will 
incorporate topology and even OSM geometry). However, if you just 
display the route to this one user, then the single route is CC-BY-SA, 
and the only person who has received the route is that one user - the 
user may now use the route under CC-BY-SA as they please, but that does 
not mean that you have to show this route (or your whole database) to 
other people as well.

> How will change of licence will affect this scenario?

I'm not sure; my guess is that as long as you don't publicly use the 
database you can keep it under lock and key, but if you should start 
providing services to the public based on your database (e.g. "find 
routes that other people have traveled!") then you might have to make it 
available.

The picture might become clearer if you can tell us why you are storing 
the user's routes in a database.

Bye
Frederik

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