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

Kathleen Lu kathleen.lu at mapbox.com
Mon Dec 16 23:04:37 UTC 2019


But what that says is not just "create a new database" but one "that
contains the whole or a substantial part of the original OSM database." His
new database will contain very little if any of the original OSM database.

On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 2:48 PM Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> sent from a phone
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> On 16. Dec 2019, at 22:09, Kathleen Lu via legal-talk <
> legal-talk at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
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> That's what the guidelines are for!
> We can't cover every possible example because there are too many, but as I
> already said, I think your usecase is covered by the Geocoding Guideline.
> https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Community_Guidelines/Geocoding_-_Guideline#The_Guideline
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> I also believe it is covered by this guideline, but it seems his use would
> trigger share alike according to this guideline:
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> 2. the Geocoding Results are not used to create a new database that
> contains the whole or a substantial part of the original OSM database
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> because he wants to create a new database.
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> Cheers Martin
>
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