I think i know what you are talking about and ide love more information. Not only is this topic something i have thought to myself but i also have more ideas on this subject as you probibly do too.
On Oct 16, 2012, at 7:14 PM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > Hi, > > what I'm offering here is my personal interpretation and not legal advice. > I hope others will chime in. > > On 16.10.2012 19:04, David Prime wrote: >> I'm in the process of starting a service that uses, amongst other >> sources, OSM data to compute various travel time metrics from a location. > > It sounds as if your time travel metrics thereby become a database that is > derived from OpenStreetMap data. > > You then "publicly use" that data by displaying it to someone. > > If that is correct then the license requires, in addition to proper > attribution, that you, if requested by anyone who is a recipient of your > "public use", make the full database of time travel metrics available to them > unter the terms of ODBL 1.0. (*) > > You do not have to make available the "other sources", only the derived > database. > > If you have a long processing chain where you create several interim > databases, like > > (OSM+other sources) => interim DB 1 > interim DB 1 => interim DB 2 > interim DB 2 => interim DB 3 > interim DB 3 => public use > > then the "make available" requirement applies to the last in the chain of > interim databases, in this case, interim DB 3. > > To avoid confusion: > > 1. You do not have to make your data available proactively; you can wait > until someone asks you for it. Depending on your audience, of course, making > it available proactively could be easier. > > 2. You do not have to make your data available to *everyone* - just those who > are the recipients of your "public use". So if you were to e.g. sell your > analyses to an elite circle of clients, only those would have the right to > request the data. (With the data being under ODbL, of course, they could then > pass it on to others.) > > Bye > Frederik > > (*) The license also has alternatives to "making the data available"; you > could also make the process available that leads to the data. But I assume > this is not an interesting option for you. > > -- > 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 _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
