[OSM-talk] licence plan - Question about supplying own data
SteveC
steve at asklater.com
Thu Mar 5 01:29:11 GMT 2009
On 4 Mar 2009, at 10:26, Dave Stubbs wrote:
> 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.
Very unlikely, derived individual coordinates are facts. I've asked
multiple lawyers about this personally.
Best
Steve
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