Hi, 80n wrote: > Actually I think the duck test http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_test is the > simplest way of approaching this problem. If someone treats something as a > database then its a database. Otherwise its a produced work. > > They can call it whatever they like when the publish it. The duck test > kicks in when someone uses it.
The problem is that the one who *publishes* it has to say which license he intends to publish under. His choice of license is affected by whether what he publishes is a Produced Work or a Database (licensing options are mutually exclusive - Produced Works cannot be licensed under ODbL, and if it is a database it *must* be licensed under ODbL). This means that the choice cannot be deferred until the work is actually used, doesn't it? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk