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

Paul Norman penorman at mac.com
Tue Oct 28 00:33:54 UTC 2014


On 10/27/2014 5:19 PM, Alex Barth wrote:
>
> According to the interpretation in column 1, the ODbL doesn't imply 
> any specific licensing for geocoding results, they are Produced Works.
>
A geocoding result is not the same as a database of geocoding results. 
Column 1 says the former is a produced work, but is silent on the latter.

Under most jurisdictions a geocoding result is likely to be ineligible 
for any protection, where as a database of them generally is.



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