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

[Stephan Knauss]

On 12.07.2014 00:46, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> Generally what I think about when reading "geocoding": you'd take a list of addresses and use the database to localize (translate) them in geo coordinates. This seems to fit perfectly to the derivative db description:
>
> “Derivative Database” – Means a database based upon the Database, and includes any translation, adaptation, arrangement, modification, or any other alteration of the Database or of a Substantial part of the Contents. This includes, but is not limited to, Extracting or Re-utilising the whole or a Substantial part of the Contents in a new Database. - See more at: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/#sthash.l1YXFGoW.dpuf

So based on this interpretation you could do geocoding without any 
requirements (in terms of attribution or share-alike) as long as it is 
insubstantial.
As a single geocode run returns only one, maybe a hand full of locations 
it's certainly insubstantial. So can be freely used.
Only when you start to use the process to systematically recreate a 
database from the process the ODbL kicks in.

Refer:

6.2 This License does not affect any rights of lawful users to Extract 
and Re-utilise insubstantial parts of the Contents, evaluated 
quantitatively or qualitatively, for any purposes whatsoever, including 
creating a Derivative Database (subject to other rights over the 
Contents, see Section 2.4). The repeated and systematic Extraction or 
Re-utilisation of insubstantial parts of the Contents may however amount 
to the Extraction or Re-utilisation of a Substantial part of the Contents.
- See more at: 
http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/#sthash.zN2GeAfp.ZYQaM1VQ.dpuf

Stephan