[talk-au] ODBL and real life...

[Grant Slater]

On 19 June 2011 14:38, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Forgot to mention that SVG files are most likely produced works, even
> those they aren't raster images, so converting to SVG and then back to
> map data would potentially be pretty trivial.
>

Nearly 12 months since you raised this thread last.... it was also
answered then.

Yes, SVG is an interesting case.
If the SVG is produced for display it is simplified and normalised,
making it a extremely poor data source for re-import into a new
database. (same as per images)
If however on the other hand if someone created an SVG file specially
for the purpose of extracted OSM data and tags, it would be extremely
difficult for them to argue that is a produced work and not a
database.

There is a simple guideline on the wiki: (from 2009)
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Produced_Work_-_Guideline

> In other words CC-by-SA protects data better than ODBL.
>

No. See above.

/ Grant