[OSM-legal-talk] Updated geocoding community guideline proposal

[Stephan Knauss]

Hello Alex,

Alex Barth writes:

> I just updated the Wiki with a proposed community guideline on geocoding.
> Please review:
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Geocoding_-_Guideline

Thank you for working on these legal guidelines. A task the typical  
developer is not keen to work on.

A while ago there was a discussion about the word "geocode" which seems to  
be a trademark in some jurisdictions. So opposed to the general term  
"geocoding" the word "geocode" might need to be used with care.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Geocode_Trademark
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocoding


The document itself describes nicely what use creates a produces work and  
what a derived database.

Is it correct that from a legal point of view the ODbL already protects  
people from circumventing the share-alike by recreating the database from  
multiple produced works?
I think it did. Still it might be worth mentioning in the guidelines that a  
large scale geocoding with the purpose to recreate a substantial part of  
the original database is no longer a produced work but a derived database  
and triggers ODbL share-alike.

Stephan