[OSM-talk] OSM layer into Adobe Illustrator?

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On 2/26/07, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> As SteveC observed at a talk a while back, open _data_ is pretty much
> a new category. There are very, very few licences that address its
> particular issues in any way - and of those that do exist, none that
> (AFAIK) have gained any widespread traction.

Good point. Currently what I think is the biggest issue is that there
no clear idea of what a "derived work" is when it's just data. Is any
data derived from the OSM data derived work? If someone uses OSM to do
street name to lon/lat conversions, is the resulting datum also
CC-BY-SA? What does that mean anyway?

> Of course, the elephant in the room, which most of us are blissfully
> ignoring, is whether _any_ licences are valid for geodata in some of
> the principal jurisdictions in which we operate. The more case law I
> read, the more I'm coming to see what people mean by "facts can't be
> copyrighted".

The knife cuts both ways. If it's turns out that geodata isn't
copyrightable then we can use the data from others without worrying
about the licence.

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog at gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/