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

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

Hi Igor,

I'd like to address a couple of points.

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Igor Brejc <igor.brejc at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not one company will dare to give out their proprietary source code to
> someone, even if they release it under a very strict license. The risks of
> someone inadvertently then pasting that code on pastebin (example) are just
> too great - and there's no way back.

This is not a problem of ODbL. If the end user distributes the source
code against the wishes of the publisher then the user did so
illegally. It's no different than if someone were to distribute MS
Office binaries via Bittorrent against the EULA.

Also, as Frederik mentioned, you don't have to to share the source
code. Even a proprietary binary program (with all the DRM you want to
prevent illegal distribution) would suffice.

> What's the purpose of it all, anyway? :) If someone releases the source code
> to a single person which then cannot share it with others, how does the
> larger OSM community then benefit from it all?

The point here is not to share and give away software or source code
but to share and give away data.

Eugene