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

[Alex Barth]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Michal Palenik <michal.palenik at freemap.sk>
wrote:

> 4.4.c. Derivative Databases and Produced Works. A Derivative Database is
>  Publicly Used and so must comply with Section 4.4. if a Produced Work
>  created from the Derivative Database is Publicly Used.
>
> which say, that it does not matter whether you declare geocodes produced
> work or derivative db. if this didn't exist, i could declare anything
> a produced work (things like any "enhanced" database) and the whold odbl
> would not exists.


Right, if your geocoding service is Public in the sense of the ODbL and it
uses an ODbL Derivative Database to look up geocoding results, the
Derivative Database must be disclosed per 4.4. Per 4.4 c this is the case
for both current interpretations on the guidelines. The disclosure
stipulations set forth in 4.6 apply.

Right now, the geocoding guidelines don't talk about the database a
geocoder uses to look up results though, they only talk about the database
geocoding results are stored in. This could change.
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