[OSM-legal-talk] Combining Creative Commons Licensed Data with ODbL and Redistributing

[maning sambale]

+1

I'm interested on clarifying this one as well.

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Kate Chapman <kate at maploser.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Currently in Indonesia we are working on a QGIS plugin called InaSAFE.
> The software allows someone to run an impact analysis of the effect of
> a certain type of hazard (flooding, tsunami, earthquake, volcano, etc)
> on infrastructure or population.
>
> So basically right now the hazard database is licensed CC-BY and the
> infrastructure data is licensed ODbL (because it is OpenStreetMap).
> When we combine the two together a third dataset is created. This
> third dataset uses the geometries of the OSM data and the attribute
> information is from the CC-BY hazard database. Sometimes depending on
> the model it uses the attributes from the OSM data with the hazard
> database to come up with the attributes for the new dataset.
>
> So is the new dataset a derived database? It seems like it is to me.
> What should we be licensing this? The software being used to do the
> analysis is completely open source and we can make the hazard database
> available under the CC-BY license as stated above.
>
> We just want to make sure we are doing the right thing to be inline
> with the license.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Kate
>
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