[OSM-legal-talk] CouchDB: Software Licenses under ODbL

[ScubbX]

Hi, Jonathan,

This simplifies matters for me. :-)
Thank you for this clarification - I was not aware of a possible 
difference between a legal and technical definition.

Am 2012-07-25 19:20, schrieb Jonathan Harley:
> On 25/07/12 14:33, ScubbX wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> While writing my master-thesis, I stumbled upon an interesting problem:
>> When I save a set of OSM data to a CouchDB, a database is created. 
>> Now, I add a couchapp ( http://couchapp.org/page/index) to this 
>> database.
>> Since the used files are stored in the same database as 
>> database-content, I would have to check whether the Apache 2.0 
>> license (couchapp), the FreeBDS license (OpenLayers) and the 
>> MIT-license (jQuery) are compatible with the ODbL.
>> A bizarre situation.
>>
>> Am I right?
>
> Hi Markus - no. For legal purposes, a "database" is just a collection 
> of data. What you mean by "stored in the same database" means stored 
> in a given storage instance of some database software. In IT we call 
> that a "database" but it's not the same meaning as the legal usage, 
> and shouldn't be confused.
>
> In other words - storing some data in the same instance of a database 
> as some OSM data doesn't automatically extend your ODbL 
> responsibilities to that data. If there are no interdependencies, 
> there's no problem.
>
> Jonathan.
>