[Osmf-talk] ODbL and Geocoding

[Christoph Hormann]

On Sunday 14 February 2016, Simon Poole wrote:
> I believe you are trying to throw two different kind of fish in to
> the same kettle :-)

I don't think so, i was referring to Frederik's notion that it is more 
important to consider what we want w.r.t. terms of use than to ask 
lawyers what the license formally allows.  This is a problem that is 
not specific to geocoding and even more - as you mentioned - geocoding 
is not even a particularly important part of it for most of the OSM 
community.

> The collective database guideline was formerly known as the metadata
> guideline. In the past the topic was discussed in depth and I believe
> that the distilled sentiment was clearly that such a rule should
> exist in some form (see for example the discussion of the "Fairhurst
> doctrine").

My point here is that the idea of allowing cross license 
feature-attribute recombination is something that - to my knowledge - 
was previously not discussed in the sense it should be generally 
allowed without share-alike.  I recognize the problem of drawing the 
line (as i pointed out in my comments) but still it is IMO important 
that the community discusses this on a broader scale.

Note i do not have a firm standpoint in this matter myself, much less i 
know others' views on the matter.  Which is exactly why i think a 
broader discourse is important.  Sadly of course the matter is complex 
enough to make it difficult to have a qualified open discussion that is 
not dominated by specific interests.

-- 
Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/