[OSM-talk] Licence of Facebook's derived road datasets? ODbL?

Christoph Hormann osm at imagico.de
Mon Dec 30 20:09:09 UTC 2019


On Monday 30 December 2019, Nuno Caldeira wrote:
> here's a interested case
> https://www.gislounge.com/gis-data-high-resolution-global-hydrography
>-dataset/amp/ are they allowed to share this on CC4? Shouldn't it only
> be ODbL? are they allowed to share only after a registration? anyone
> wanna try getting a copy of the derivated work as they need to
> without registration?

Note this is a use case very different from the one discussed here *and* 
the producers of the data dual license it CC-BY-NC and ODbL.  Details 
can be found on:

http://hydro.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~yamadai/MERIT_Hydro/

This is similar in nature to a case i pointed out about two years ago:

https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2018-January/008648.html

The question here is if something that is used in a database like 
fashion (i.e. that is semantically interpreted by algorithms) can be a 
produced work.  Answering 'yes' to this question would - as i explained 
in the cited discussion - functionally abolish share-alike for much of 
the OSM data.  So far LWG and OSMF board have avoided answering this 
question with a clear 'no' and instead tried to find a middle way 
between the two - see:

https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2019-August/008741.html

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Christoph Hormann
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