[OSM-legal-talk] ZIP codes from OSM in non-compatible licensed dataset

[Lars-Daniel Weber]

From: "Martin Koppenhoefer" <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
> "substantial investment" is not the same as monetary cost. The human time that is 
> needed to collect and arrange the data is also an investment.

Creating the items is *not* covered by the database directive. The amount of time needed to collect them actually is. The creation is protected by the the database content's license or the normal copyright.
 
> are kept in separate columns and are not used in combination/both to create a produced work?

Yes and yes.