[talk-au] Going separate ways

[David Groom]

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From: "Richard Fairhurst" <richard at systemed.net>
To: <talk-au at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways


>
> David Groom wrote:
>> Are you sure?  ODbL defines '"Collective Database" Means this Database
>> in unmodified form as part of a collection of independent
>> databases ......'. Therefore if you "cut out" Australia it cant be part
>> of a collective database, because it is not the whole database in an
>> unmodified form.
>
> I am sure, yes.
>
> You would be making planet-combined.osm out of two databases:
> osm-without-australia.osm (ODbL) and fosm-australia-only.osm (CC-BY-SA).
>
> As it happens, osm-without-australia.osm is a Derivative Database of
> planet.osm, and fosm-australia-only.osm is a Derivative Work of 
> planet.fosm.
> But that's immaterial - planet.osm is probably a Derivative of some other
> databases, too. It being a Derivative doesn't restrict your rights under
> ODbL. Once you have the Derivative Database, you are free to use it under
> the full provisions of ODbL, and that includes doing whatever you like 
> with
> an "unmodified" version of it.
>

Which seems to me to that you are agreeing with my point, that these are 
derivative databases, not collective databases as you first argued.

Regards

David

> cheers
> Richard
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