[OSM-legal-talk] Licensing question

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Thu Aug 1 14:53:53 UTC 2019


Considering the Produced Work - Guideline: Is the result of Osm2city  
in your opinion a product or a derived database?

If it is a product, then you can choose your own license, but you  
still have comply with the conditions of No. 4.3. ODbL .

If it is a derived database then you have to comply especially with  
the conditions of No. 4.2 and 4.4 ODbL (but not only). Your derived  
database will still be under ODbL.
If it's a derived database , then it also raises the question of  
whether ODbL (Open Data License) and GPL (Free Software/Open Source  
License) are compatible with each other, No. 4.4 a. iii. ODbL.

Falk

Zitat von merspieler <merspieler at airmail.cc>:

> Hello,
>
> I've got a question about licensing.
>
> I'm using a program called Osm2city [1] that generates scenery for the
> flight gear flight simulator(FGFS) [2].
>
> To be on the safe side, I've currently released the results under the
> WTFPL which isn't a big deal for me but FGFS is GPL2 only and it's
> impossible, to get anything packaged with it, that's not GPL2.
>
> So my question: May I release the results under the GPL2 (if needed with
> dual licensing)?
>
> This may affect others as well, as I'm not the only one, who's
> generating any scenery but I haven't seen any licensing statement for
> their work.
> A list of this work is available on our wiki[3].
>
> Example results can be downloaded as well from the wiki page[3].
>
>
> [1] https://gitlab.com/fg-radi/osm2city
> [2] http://www.flightgear.org/
> [3] http://wiki.flightgear.org/Areas_populated_with_osm2city_scenery
>
>
> regards,
>
>
> merspieler






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