[OSM-legal-talk] question regarding produced work

Lars-Daniel Weber Lars-Daniel.Weber at gmx.de
Thu Nov 19 15:04:13 UTC 2015


Frederik Ramm wrote on Donnerstag, 19. November 2015 um 13:46 Uhr:
>
> I would have a stronger opinion if it were a case where external data is
> mixed with OSM to create an "added value" product - but if someone just
> mangles the OSM data a bit, I'm tempted to view that as part of the
> rendering.
 
The guidelines say that you need even to release the steps to create
a derived database (or share the diff or share the database itself).

So it's not done by saying: "download the raw data".
That's against the license.
 
> You said that you have made several requests to the site operator to
> hand over the data. Has *any* of them been a polite request where you
> did not express your assumed entitlement to receive it ("Dear XXX could
> I perhaps have a copy of the data"), or have they been like ("Hello XXX
> your data is ODbL hence you must give it to me") from the start?

I've read some discussions about this on IRC. My request was about a
small "how to get the result" as described before. 



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