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

[Jean-Marc Liotier]

On 05/05/2014 16:32, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
>
> 2014-05-05 14:05 GMT+02:00 Tobias Knerr <osm at tobias-knerr.de 
> <mailto:osm at tobias-knerr.de>>:
>
>     > *And share-alike only applies to what we collect.*
>
>     Let me first say that this is a brilliantly clear way to put it. I
>     like
>     this a lot.
>
>
> I believe this is somehow more limiting than what we actually might 
> want. E.g. we don't collect traffic data, but if there was a company 
> which used our data as basemap and associated average speeds for time 
> spans to our graph (e.g. automatically from the analysis of their 
> users / smartphones) I think we would be interested to get this data 
> to improve our routing.

Usefulness to Openstreetmap is orthogonal to the ODBL.

That traffic data might relate to way identifiers, but it does not 
improve or even modify Openstreetmap data - so I fail to see how 
Openstreetmap might lay claim on a map showing traffic over 
Openstreetmap highways.

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