[OSM-legal-talk] When does a produced work has to be share-alike?

[Jonathan Harley]

On 29/03/15 16:43, Lars-Daniel Weber wrote:
> Sure, I have to release the SVG file or the workflow under share-alike, that's fine so far. But when I press "export to PDF", will this be an intermidiate database, which also has to be share-alike? This simply wouldn't be possible pecause of the use of non-free data. In my eyes, the only solution could be to find a printers' shop, which directly printers from Illustrator to T-Shirts...
>

I'm not sure if a PDF counts as a database; probably only if accurate 
spatial data can be derived from it. But in any case, you only have to 
release a derivative database if it is published. If all you're doing 
with it is sending it to a printer, who is working for you, and who will 
not make the file available to anyone else, then that's not a publicly 
used database, so the share-alike requirement doesn't apply.

Jonathan.

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