[OSM-legal-talk] Licensing question
merspieler
merspieler at airmail.cc
Fri Aug 2 01:31:57 UTC 2019
I'd consider the work a produced work. I will apply 4.3. ODbL.
Thank you for your help.
newsgroup at pirschkarte.de:
> 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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