[OSM-legal-talk] OpenStreetMap Share Alike Produced Work issue

[Paul Norman]

On 2023-05-28 11:32 p.m., Esin Ekizoglu wrote:
> I have a question about this work. Normally, from what I have read 
> (Openstreetmap Licence), my productions belong to the status of 
> "produced work". (because I analyze public GPS tracks by integrating 
> other given data (like bike paths plans for future for example) not 
> only from Openstreetmap but other open sources (with a work QGIS) The 
> results are in the form of images (jpeg or png exported from QGIS) and 
> relate to part of the publication. Is correctly referencing 
> Openstreetmap and Contributors will be sufficient for the questions of 
> the copyright?
> Another question: I saw that before ODbL there was CC BY-SA 2.0 until 
> September 2012. Can't traces downloaded before this date be part of 
> produced work?  On the site it is marked as if the whole database was 
> under the ODbL license. Does it refer to public gps data before 
> September 2012? I will have to delete these traces of my research work 
> since I cannot communicate them with the same license?


Images produced from OSM data prior to the license change must be 
licensed as CC BY-SA 2.0 or later. For ODbL data, see 
https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Licence_and_Legal_FAQ#1.8.2._Books,_magazines_and_printed_maps.

Your book, as a whole, can be whatever license you like.