[OSM-talk] licence plan - Question about supplying own data

Dave Stubbs osm.list at randomjunk.co.uk
Wed Mar 4 18:26:13 GMT 2009


2009/3/4 Gustav Foseid <gustavf at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:38 PM, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> They used the map to pin the locations - the points did not come from
>> some other map. Therefore it is derived (this is precisely the problem
>> with pinning pictures on a Google or OSM map). So if they put the data
>> in a database (= spreadsheet for example) before printing it, that would
>> be derived, surely.
>
> The coordinates came from a Produced Work (some map image og paper map). As
> I read the license, works (or databases) based on a Produced Work is not
> subject to the conditions of the ODbL.


If you were able to extract coordinates then this could be regarded as
reverse engineering the Produced Work, in which case it's covered by
4.7
There's that "substantial" caveat again though.

Dave




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