[OSM-legal-talk] Clarifying Geocoding and ODbL

Michal Palenik michal.palenik at freemap.sk
Fri Jun 14 06:09:38 UTC 2013


On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 03:58:22PM +0200, Olov McKie wrote:
> Geocoding and license implications
> Manual geocoding of an entity that a person has prior local knowledge of, is the same process as adding a new entity to the OSM, and as such the person geocoding the entity retains their full copyright over the geocoded entity. All other geocoding results in a Produced Work, as that term is defined in the ODbL. Section 4.5 provides that a Produced Work is not subject to the share-alike provisions of Section 4.4 of the ODbL.

as was pointed out before, these implications are wrong:
after adding a poi based on underlaying map data, i do not have full
copyright because it is partially based on underlaying map (if i added
it solely based on GPS coordinates, without any use of map, it would be
a different story)

Produced Works is still a (derivative) database. it is both. 
very similar to LGPL. share-alike definetly applies to the data (or we
should have the discussion if the result is collective or derivative DB)


michal

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