Hi, > And therefore, I presume the same is true if the program is a Flash > app (running client-side, of course, albeit with a browser frame > around it) which outputs the result as a PDF - which Fred can then > save to his local hard drive and/or print. Right?
Since you're asking me personally ;-) yes. You're lucky that the program runs client-side because if it ran server-side then even sending the PDF to the user would constitute distribution. I posted some time ago about CC-BY-SA encouraging people to "shift the burden" of creating derivative works further down the line. So instead of creating a PDF, the server creates two data streams and shifts them to the client, which then creates a PDF. If it was important for the client that the PDF could be passed on to third parties, then the client could generate two PDFs together with a little executable that would combine them on the fly for viewing; this again could then be distributed and would shift the burden to the recipient and so on. If one were sarcastic, one could say that this kind of share-alike license tends to produce "bombshell derivatives" which make it easy for the unsuspecting user to do wrong. (E.g. a slippy map with an OSM layer and a something-whatever-noncommercial layer on top - perfectly viewable for you but don't you dare make a screenshot and publish it!) Bye Frederik _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
