[OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

[Igor Brejc]

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Jonathan Harley <jon at spiffymap.net> wrote:

The license says you must either give people the derivative database, or
> the method of making it. If you can't give away the derivative database
> (because it was transient), then you must surely give the method (source
> code).


This effectively means: "no proprietary/closed source apps for OSM". Every
app will have a transient in-memory database, one way or the other. So I
cannot really imagine 4.6a clause ever being possible to satisfy in that
case. Then what's the point of having 4.6a clause?

Igor
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