[OSM-legal-talk] Confusion about Pins, Trivial Matching, and Collective Databases

[Simon Poole]

Am 25.02.2015 um 19:21 schrieb Ben:
> I could use more clarification, I keep reading what seem to be
> conflicting or nuanced positions.

You are confusing layman answers, potentially coloured by personal
preferences (licence discussion often tend to border on the religious),
with legal advice.


>
> What We Want to Do
>
> I want to generate a map for a company intranet site showing a client
> where his vehicles are currently based on lat/long coordinates (given
> to us by our proprietary mobile app which they run) and existing
> customer locations (to which those trucks are driving today) (based on
> the business addresses the customers have previously given to us). 
> We'd set up an OSM tile server for this and use a library for
> layering/interaction.  We don't need to make available our database of
> truck locations/client addresses.
>
> Legal Confusion
>
> My reading of the OSM terms lead me to believe that the matching
> between independent data and OSM data is trivial and thus it is a
> Collective Database and thus 
>
> I base this on OSM Legal FAQ which says in 3d, "However, if the two
> datasets are matched 'trivially' by, for example, automated matching
> using a simple criterion such as name/locality, this is not
> 'substantial' and remains a Collective Database."
> (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Legal_FAQ#3c._If_I_make_something_with_OSM_data.2C_do_I_now_have_to_apply_your_license_to_my_whole_work.3F)
>

Content on wiki.openstreetmap.org is not controlled by the licensor, the
OSMF, and as such while it might be helpful it might just as good not
be. The same goes for help.openstreetmap.org

In your question you note that you are developing this for company
internal use only. If this is the case, the whole issue is moot.

See the definition “Publicly” – means to Persons other than You or under
Your control by either more than 50% ownership or by the power to direct
their activities (such as contracting with an independent consultant)
and paragraph 4.2 of the ODbL 1.0.

Simon
“Publicly” – means to Persons other than You or under Your control by
either more than 50% ownership or by the power to direct their
activities (such as contracting with an independent consultant). - See
more at: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/#sthash.YRXWKIBY.dpuf
“Publicly” – means to Persons other than You or under Your control by
either more than 50% ownership or by the power to direct their
activities (such as contracting with an independent consultant). - See
more at: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/#sthash.YRXWKIBY.dpuf

“Publicly” – means to Persons other than You or under Your control by
either more than 50% ownership or by the power to direct their
activities (such as contracting with an independent consultant). - See
more at: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/#sthash.YRXWKIBY.dpuf

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