Hello Alex,
Alex Barth writes:
I just updated the Wiki with a proposed community guideline on geocoding.
Please review:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Geocoding_-_Guideline
Thank you for working on these legal guidelines. A task the typical
developer is not keen to work on.
A while ago there was a discussion about the word "geocode" which seems to
be a trademark in some jurisdictions. So opposed to the general term
"geocoding" the word "geocode" might need to be used with care.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Geocode_Trademark
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocoding
The document itself describes nicely what use creates a produces work and
what a derived database.
Is it correct that from a legal point of view the ODbL already protects
people from circumventing the share-alike by recreating the database from
multiple produced works?
I think it did. Still it might be worth mentioning in the guidelines that a
large scale geocoding with the purpose to recreate a substantial part of
the original database is no longer a produced work but a derived database
and triggers ODbL share-alike.
Stephan
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