[OSM-talk] Windows GPX track logging software and alicence question!

[Jonathan Cohen]

> You can't copyright a fact. You're confusing copyright with database 
> rights.

That wasn't my question! ;-)

> If you have been granted access to a database containing a list of 
> chemists,
> the rights holder might say that you're not then allowed to include the
> whole list on a map that you're making available to the public.

Or they may well say that you can incorporate the information in a map to be 
distributed for a particular purpose, but no other - unless you pay them 
lots of money. :-)

> Do some reading up on the EU Database Directive for clarification, and
> contact the rights holder for their thoughts on what you do before you 
> make
> your creations public.

I'm not asking about rights to third party data, I am asking here about 
Openstreetmap. As I understand it, I can't distribute a map based on 
Openstreetmap data combined with third party data, unless I can get 
permission from the owner of that third party data to distribute it under 
the CC-sharealike, or similar?

Rgds
Jonathan