[OSM-legal-talk] Proposed "Metadata"-Guideline

[Rob Myers]

On 2015-09-22 16:26, 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.

This would explicitly go against the license if it's a qualitative 
rather a quantitative statement.

Calling something "geocoding" is a distraction.

Look at what processes are involved (copying a database) and what the 
results are (a substantial or non-substantial amount of the database 
being copied).

- Rob.