On 1 Aug 2008, at 01:14, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Question 1 - is that what Ed said? And question 2 - does it make > sense, > legally? And question 3 - so I am allowed to trace my house, and my > neighbour's, and my workplace, and the bakery I visit every morning, > and > my birthplace, and my parent's house...?
I think you remember it accurately. And I think you could publish all those things without a problem. It reminds me of similar discussions about UK postcodes and OSGB TOIDs: you can publish a small set of them relating to data you publish for your own arbitrary purposes. However attempts to integrate multiple individual projects into, for example, some kind of UK postcode lookup, or a "FreeStreepMap" project based on spidering and integrating thousands of KMZs, would breach terms. It's not so much "derived data" that's the problem (as small amounts are ok), but "derived utility". So going back to your various publishable tracings, it would be the intent to integrate the tracings of a whole community that would be problematic. No, not very satisfactory in terms of mathematical logic, but does anybody want a legal system that's as hackable as Internet Explorer? - L _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk