[OSM-legal-talk] question about collective databases

Christoph Hormann chris_hormann at gmx.de
Mon Feb 27 10:14:15 UTC 2017


On Monday 27 February 2017, Tobias Wendorff wrote:
>
> http://opendata.blattspinat.com/
> -> Zuordnung von Landkreisen zu Postleitzahlen
> (translation: "assignment of rural district to postal codes")
>
> The user released the final dataset under ODbL and gave this
> attribution:
> "ODbL © 2017 OpenStreetMap Contributers & © GeoBasis-DE / BKG 2015
> (Daten verändert)" (last two words mean: "data has been changed").
>
> Let's say, he didn't make any analysis to the OSM data to fix missing
> data, which would result in "Horizontal Layers" case. Is the result
> a simple collective database?

I am not sure about the relevance of your question here.  The data set 
you refer to is licensed under ODbL which is permissible for OSM data 
both in a collective database and a derivative database (or a produced 
work for that matter).  

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Christoph Hormann
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