On 31 May 2009, at 07:10, Marc Wick wrote:
There are fundamental differences between source code and data.
Share-alike code does not prevent you from building complex
applications, whereas share-alike data is a show stopper for
anything not absolutely trivial.
"..., OSM doesn't even let you do mashups." [1]
I understand that OdbL is trying to address and alleviate some of
these issues. Unfortunately I fear that I am not going to understand
'kafkaesque' legalese and I prefer licenses that I can understand
without having to consult a lawyer. Maybe somebody wants to take the
opportunity and explain in a few words how OdbL is supposed to work?
I said the process was kafkaesque, not the license itself. It always
is, look at the GPLv3 process.
The ODbL looks a bit like CC-BY-SA for data, except that if you make
something with the data (say, a printed map) then that 'produced work'
can be licensed however you like so long as you don't reverse engineer
the data back from that.
Best
Steve
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