El Jueves, 11 de Diciembre de 2008, Frederik Ramm escribió: > > Heck, I'd even hold that a data array of any kind held in RAM qualifies > > as a database. Not just because it's an array, but because somebody > > decided what goes into that array and in which way. > > But the database directive does not extend protection to each and every > database; there has to be "substantial investment" in obtaining, > verifying or presenting the contents.
OK, while I have to agree with you on this one, I'd like to make a couple of things clear here. A *database* is a bunch of stuff in my computer's RAM. *Any* stuff at all. Database *protection* is granted only to DBs that have had a subtantial investment on them. > Now while I can just about see the substantial investment in getting out > on a rainy day and collecting 50 road geometries with your GPS, there > can be absolutely no doubt that entering the name of the pub around the > corner will never come under "substantial investment"... Now, I can have two points of view here (let's say, 1a and 1b): - I did invest a substantial amount of effort and time getting this data into $EDITOR. It is already a DB, and I'll slap a ODbL on it before it goes off my computer. - I did not invest much time while drawing these two pub nodes in $EDITOR, but I'll only upload them if you slap a ODbL to them the moment they are integrated in the main DB. (Read that last line as "the moment my unprotectable DB gets merged with the protectable DB" and/or "the main protectable DB is derived thanks to my unprotectable DB") And then comes 1c, AKA "I don't care about f***ing licenses": - I have this data (DB) in $EDITOR, and I don't really care if I did a substantial investment on it or not. All I know is that the main (protectable) DB will get modified (derived) with my DB (either protectable or unprotectable, it doesn't matter). <joke> Anyway, learning Potlach should be considered a "substantial investment" </joke> Cheers, -- ---------------------------------- Iván Sánchez Ortega <i...@sanchezortega.es> La vida es una enfermedad mortal de transmisión sexual.
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