[OSM-legal-talk] The edges of share-alike on data Re: Attribution

[Rob Myers]

On 03/05/14 08:51 AM, Michael Collinson wrote:
> 
> Geocoding: So I have to share a patient's medical record because it is
> geocoded against OSM?

Who with?

> Dynamic Data: So if I use OpenStreetMap car park location data, I have
> to share the real-time occupancy data?

Who with?

> Algorithmic transformations: So I thought of this clever idea to
> pre-format OSM data for fast loading into my game. Now I have to share
> my that or my algorithm?

Who with?

> General maps: I want to use OSM to show locations of restaurants on my
> restaurant review site. Now I have to share the reviews?

Who with?

> *And share-alike only applies to what we collect.*

But the license doesn't exist to collect data for OSM.

It exists to ensure that all the users (or in the terms of the license,
all its recipients if you Use it Publicly) of that data, in combination
with whichever other data and in whatever form and wherever they
encounter it, are free to use it.

If that leads to patients having better access to their medical data,
people being able to find somewhere to park, players of games being able
to maintain and modify them creatively to build communities around them
and drive sales, and people being able to check the actual rankings of
the restaurants they're being directed to that's definitely a win for
Open Data.

- Rob.