[OSM-legal-talk] When should ODbL apply to geocoding

Paul Norman penorman at mac.com
Tue Sep 22 23:45:51 UTC 2015


On 9/22/2015 4:38 PM, Paul Norman wrote:
> I'm trimming the cc list and taking this to a new thread, since it's 
> independent of the metadata guideline.
>
> On 9/22/2015 4:26 PM, Alex Barth wrote:
>> Overall, I'd love to see us moving towards a share alike 
>> interpretation that applies to "OSM as the map" and allows for 
>> liberal intermingling of narrower data extracts. In plain terms: to 
>> specifically _not_ extend the ODbL via share alike to third party 
>> data elements intermingled with OSM data elements of the same kind. 
>> E. g. mixing OSM and non-OSM addresses should not extend ODbL to 
>> non-OSM addresses, mixing OSM and non-OSM POIs should not extend the 
>> ODbL to non-OSM POIs and so forth.
>
> Turning this around, when do you think share-alike should apply in a 
> geocoding context?

I realized after sending that it's more appropriate to say "when do you 
think share-alike does apply", not "should apply".



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