[OSM-legal-talk] use OSM data to select proprietary data

matthias.straetling at buerotiger.de matthias.straetling at buerotiger.de
Mon Dec 16 02:18:46 UTC 2019


> Von: "Christoph Hormann" <chris_hormann at gmx.de>
>
> The idea that your process of intersecting non-OSM data with OSM based
> admin polygons results in a collective database is not realistic.  To
> me this kind of operation would be a textbook example of something
> generating a derivative database - you combine OSM data with non-OSM
> data to generate something of additional value compared to either of
> these data sets alone.  This is exactly the kind of scenario
> share-alike is meant for and why it was chosen as license for OSM.  But
> there are of course fairly strong economic interests for this not being
> subject to share-alike so people think of ways to interpret the ODbL
> accordingly.

Okay, I'll canceld all plans to use OpenStreetMap for this task.
I've contacted several commercial data providers and hope to get offers tomorrow.

I didn't expected OpenStreetMap to be such non-free and permissive :-(



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