Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

2020-09-23 Thread Christoph Hormann
principle still apply (including in particular that the OSMF publishes the changeset discussions under ODbL as well). The main difference i think is that contributions to changeset discussions have a higher likeliness to in themselves be subject to copyright (and not just database protection). -- C

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Changeset Comments Copyright

2020-09-23 Thread Christoph Hormann
chavi) so if you have an issue with that in principle picking out Slack specifically is not really appropriate. (that is all under the assumption that Slack is using the data in compliance with the ODbL - which i don't know) -- Christoph Hormann http://www.i

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] use OSM data to select proprietary data

2019-12-20 Thread Christoph Hormann
Talking about compact binary data representation here of course, not raw OSM XML and no lossy compression. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] use OSM data to select proprietary data

2019-12-16 Thread Christoph Hormann
d require neither share-alike nor attribution since they are neither a Derivative Database, a Collective Database nor a Produced Work. So while your willingness to attribute is admirable this kind of attribution for mixed and processed data without shar

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] use OSM data to select proprietary data

2019-12-16 Thread Christoph Hormann
hing of additional value in combination with other data under open license terms. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] use OSM data to select proprietary data

2019-12-14 Thread Christoph Hormann
enario share-alike is meant for and why it was chosen as license for OSM. But there are of course fairly strong economic interests for this not being subject to share-alike so people think of ways to interpret the ODbL accordingly. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ __

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] use OSM data to select proprietary data

2019-12-13 Thread Christoph Hormann
lready wrote in https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2019-November/083535.html existing OSMF community guidelines suggest spatial operations like ST_Difference() and ST_Intersection() yield Derivative Databases that are subject to share-alike. -- Christoph Hormann

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licensing question

2019-08-05 Thread Christoph Hormann
between mappers and data users that OSM is built on and depends on however the situation looks very different. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licensing question

2019-08-02 Thread Christoph Hormann
for access "by electronic or other means". Inversely the same applies to the nature of a produced work. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licensing question

2019-08-02 Thread Christoph Hormann
in a database-like fashion or more in the form of a finished product ready for human consumption. The scene geometry for a 3d rendering is quite clearly more database-like in its use. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OSM for training ML machines

2019-04-10 Thread Christoph Hormann
he only consistent view of these concepts is IMO to consider them to be limited exclusively to cases when you are talking about things produced for and used only for direct human consumption. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ legal-talk mailing l

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OSM for training ML machines

2019-04-10 Thread Christoph Hormann
are not the result of a literal copy but result from 'knowledge' encoded in a neural network. When considering this subject, maybe think of it less as a question of copying data, think of it more as a process of mimicry. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OSM for training ML machines

2019-04-09 Thread Christoph Hormann
use of OSM data, in particular in the context of 'big data', > and how this relates to the ODbL.  It seems to me opinions on this > are too much based on wishful thinking and too little aim to form a > consistent framework that supports desirable and harmless use cases > but does not create l

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License clarification

2018-06-07 Thread Christoph Hormann
e context of 'big data', and how this relates to the ODbL. It seems to me opinions on this are too much based on wishful thinking and too little aim to form a consistent framework that supports desirable and harmless use cases but does not create loopholes against the spirit of the license. --

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License clarification

2018-06-07 Thread Christoph Hormann
Substantial_-_Guideline -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License clarification

2018-06-06 Thread Christoph Hormann
if you mask the data early in a more elaborate process and do further processing afterwards based on a data set that is an inseparable combination of both data sources the situation is not that clear. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ le

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Interesting use case of combining OSM with proprietary data

2018-01-13 Thread Christoph Hormann
ermediate data you might get separate raster maps for the OSM roads and the Google roads. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Interesting use case of combining OSM with proprietary data

2018-01-13 Thread Christoph Hormann
escribed in explicit form (like linestring or polygon) or implicit form (like distance function)? -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Interesting use case of combining OSM with proprietary data

2018-01-12 Thread Christoph Hormann
enging - but that is just a minor hurdle. Note from a business perspective as a data user i would not really mind if the above scenario was acceptable but as said it would practically mean the end of share-alike for map rendering applications - and that is likely not what the mappers who voted

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Interesting use case of combining OSM with proprietary data

2018-01-12 Thread Christoph Hormann
. But on the other hand you could argue (as you already did in your mail) that once you use a produced work in a database-like fashion it becomes a derivative database again - the same way as if you trace features from a rendered OSM map. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Interesting use case of combining OSM with proprietary data

2018-01-11 Thread Christoph Hormann
is the perfect trial balloon to test how far you can go. And if Oxford University gets screwed over this that is not their problem. If not and this kind of data combination becomes widely accepted this would OTOH open the door for a lot of applications that would depend on circumventing share-alike. --

[OSM-legal-talk] Interesting use case of combining OSM with proprietary data

2018-01-11 Thread Christoph Hormann
. But you could probably also look at it differently. I would like to hear opinions on this. In particular if you think that is legally possible without share alike how this interpretation looks like. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ legal

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] question about collective databases

2017-02-27 Thread Christoph Hormann
quot;Horizontal Layers" case. Is the result > a simple collective database? I am not sure about the relevance of your question here. The data set you refer to is licensed under ODbL which is permissible for OSM data both in a collective database and a derivative database

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Imagery CC-BY-NC 4.0 + OSM Specific allowance

2017-01-26 Thread Christoph Hormann
ested) and waive the NC clause for activities that are related to the process of digitizing data for use in OSM. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Imagery CC-BY-NC 4.0 + OSM Specific allowance

2017-01-20 Thread Christoph Hormann
his/her work actually makes it into the main OSM database. In the past this has often been a problem with specific permissions for restricted access data. License terms or terms of use of a service should not require mappers to take additional legal risks. -- Christoph Hormann http://ww

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Series of maps for Angola

2017-01-20 Thread Christoph Hormann
min boundaries and OSM based basemap features instead of between the admin boundaries and your special thematic layer. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using copyrighted data to locate objects in bing (and trace over bing)

2016-08-25 Thread Christoph Hormann
not get much reaction here. In the latter case you would need to be more specific about what data you are considering using, who produced this data and under what terms of use it has been made available to you. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] osm-carto license

2016-08-25 Thread Christoph Hormann
The style itself however does not require attribution when used with non-OSM data since it is CC0. You can still render tiles using the standard style and OSM data yourself and distribute them under something other than CC-By-SA as long as you comply with the ODbL. But if you use those rendered b

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] attributive data enrichment using OSM

2016-07-25 Thread Christoph Hormann
illustrations this database is subject to the share-alike requirements. And note if you (as indicated in your initial inquiry) intend to license this derivative database or a produced work to a third party that is already a public process under the ODbL. -- Christoph H

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] MAPS.ME combining OSM data and non-OSM data?

2016-07-22 Thread Christoph Hormann
- yes, intent and usefulness are significant regarding the question of independence of the databases. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] MAPS.ME combining OSM data and non-OSM data?

2016-07-22 Thread Christoph Hormann
ct the derivative database from the original data (like when you use a random number generator to remove random features). But if you intermingle ODbL and proprietary data into a derivative database publishing only the algorithm used for that is meaningless since to reproduce the results you n

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] MAPS.ME combining OSM data and non-OSM data?

2016-07-10 Thread Christoph Hormann
m. So if one direction was possible without share-alike the guidelines would essentially be irrelevant because they'd only distinguish between those cases where you have to de-duplicate in one direction and those where you can combine data sets freely without share-alike. -- Christoph Horma

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] MAPS.ME combining OSM data and non-OSM data?

2016-07-09 Thread Christoph Hormann
ures missing in OSM data or if you use OSM data to add features missing in proprietary data - the license as i read it is symmetric in that matter. What i was trying to do is point out ways how you could continue doing what you do (i.e. show both data from booking.com and from OSM in a single appl

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] MAPS.ME combining OSM data and non-OSM data?

2016-07-09 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Saturday 09 July 2016, Christoph Hormann wrote: > > I think this is a fairly clear case for the Horizontal Layers > guideline To avoid ambiguity: I of course meant a case where the guideline says share-alike applies. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.i

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] MAPS.ME combining OSM data and non-OSM data?

2016-07-09 Thread Christoph Hormann
ou however must not show any hotels that are not in OSM then or make their coordinates available under compatible license. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Australian Government Data from data.gov.au

2016-06-30 Thread Christoph Hormann
thorities of my choosing... Otherwise - if they don't want their data in OSM - their loss. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Australian Government Data from data.gov.au

2016-06-30 Thread Christoph Hormann
e extremely unfair towards the normal individual mappers because their attribution (which is currently the main one behind 'OpenStreetMap Contributors') would be buried among tons of others. The whole idea to me seems completely impractical. -- Christoph Hormann htt

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] FYI Collective Database Guideline

2016-06-10 Thread Christoph Hormann
er direction but at any level of certainty making one-sided statements is a two-sided sword. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] FYI Collective Database Guideline

2016-06-09 Thread Christoph Hormann
letely replace and "uses either all OSM data or no OSM data for that property" implies that a data mixture in properties changes the situation. In other words: having precisely formulated points in parameter space but not having limits defined in relation to th

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] FYI Collective Database Guideline

2016-06-09 Thread Christoph Hormann
d understanding of the guideline. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] licenses suitable for import

2016-03-20 Thread Christoph Hormann
decision or other serious legal assessment claiming copyright (in contrast to database rights) on pre-graphical geodata representations under German copyright law. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ legal-talk mailing list l

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ECJ confirmed 96/9/EG for printed maps

2016-03-13 Thread Christoph Hormann
data from share-alike by generating a produced work and reverse engineering data from it again. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] share-alike on generalized data?

2016-02-07 Thread Christoph Hormann
n these do not need to be made available of course. So if you release a changefile that contains changes to proprietary data which itself is not openly available this is useless and irrelevant for share-alike. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] share-alike on generalized data?

2016-02-06 Thread Christoph Hormann
ky. But you can try to avoid that. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Use of data from the EU GMES/Copernicus programme

2016-02-06 Thread Christoph Hormann
to the osmim (http://maps.imagico.de/#osmim). -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Use of data from the EU GMES/Copernicus programme

2016-01-27 Thread Christoph Hormann
Not sure if i should interpret the lack of respone as agreement to my assessment that the data may be used as a source for OSM mapping with a notice on the contributors page. If there are opinions to the contrary please speak up. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Use of data from the EU GMES/Copernicus programme

2016-01-27 Thread Christoph Hormann
stributing or communicating GMES dedicated data and GMES service information to the public, users shall inform the public of the source of that data and information." As i see it the question here can only be if the obligation to "inform the public" is fulfilled by listin

[OSM-legal-talk] Use of data from the EU GMES/Copernicus programme

2016-01-16 Thread Christoph Hormann
/TC_Sentinel_Data_31072014.pdf -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Proposed Collective Database Guideline (was Meta-Data Guideline)

2015-11-05 Thread Christoph Hormann
rapidly increasing and the OSM community (and of course also the larger open data community) needs to ask itself if it wants to leave this whole field to proprietary data providers. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ ___ legal-talk mailing l