Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL virality questions

2009-10-16 Thread Erik Johansson
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Erik Johansson wrote: Open Database License (ODbL) “Attribution and Share-Alike for Data/Databases” Yep. Exactly. CC-BY-SA, famously, allows you to combine different types of creative content as a collective

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL virality questions

2009-10-10 Thread Erik Johansson
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Erik Johansson wrote: If this is all there is to it then you can make a collective database out of anything that is not connected on a map level to OSM data. That doesn't seem very viral to me. OSM's mission

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL virality questions

2009-10-08 Thread Erik Johansson
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Matt Amos zerebub...@gmail.com wrote: i think the more useful case to most people will be to use the OSM data geographically. if i started beerintheOSM i'd want to use OSM for as much of the geographic data as possible - that's kinda the point of OSM isn't it?

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL virality questions

2009-10-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Matt Amos wrote: can the SA requirement be satisfied by saying that we consider the extracted IDs to be an ODbL part of a collective database, where the proprietary data is the other part? it would require the ODbL part (i.e: the list of IDs) to be made available, but nothing else. This is

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL virality questions

2009-10-08 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Matt Amos wrote: are you suggesting that we change our guideline on what is substantial? I am. Well, not so much change, more clarify. Substantial in EU Database Directive terms can mean quantitative and/or qualitative. I agree that extracting a pubs of Britain dataset and distributing it

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL virality questions

2009-10-07 Thread Matt Amos
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Dan Karran d...@karran.net wrote: What would happen if the beerintheOSM site encouraged their users to add new pubs to their site, would that data - the equivalent of what would have come from OSM, had they come from there - need to be released as well, or

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL virality questions

2009-10-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Matt Amos wrote: this is the crux of the question. the ODbL makes no distinction between lat/lon data, ID data, or any other sort of data. so the question then becomes; if i'm using some data from an ODbL database and incorporating that into my database, do i have to release all of my

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL virality questions

2009-10-07 Thread Matt Amos
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, Matt Amos wrote: this is the crux of the question. the ODbL makes no distinction between lat/lon data, ID data, or any other sort of data. so the question then becomes; if i'm using some data from an ODbL database

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL virality questions

2009-10-07 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Matt Amos wrote: can the SA requirement be satisfied by saying that we consider the extracted IDs to be an ODbL part of a collective database, where the proprietary data is the other part? it would require the ODbL part (i.e: the list of IDs) to be made available, but nothing else. It

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL virality questions

2009-10-06 Thread Matt Amos
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Andrew Turner ajtur...@highearthorbit.com wrote: On 2 Oct 2009, at 18:06, Matt Amos wrote: hi legals, i've come across a couple of interesting questions / use-cases for the ODbL and wider discussion. it basically reduces to whether we want the ODbL to have

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL virality questions

2009-10-06 Thread Richard Shank
Matt Amos wrote: as a concrete example, let's pretend i have a site, beerintheOSM, which rates pubs and allows commenting and photo uploads. if i'm storing the reviews linked against pubs linked against OSM (name/location/ID), i definitely have to release the (name/location/ID) records -

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL virality questions

2009-10-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, no-one is suggesting that the extraction of names, locations and IDs would be somehow outside of the ODbL. any site using these as lookup keys would have to release that data under the ODbL. [...] as a concrete example, let's pretend i have a site, beerintheOSM, which rates pubs and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL virality questions

2009-10-06 Thread Dan Karran
2009/10/6 Matt Amos zerebub...@gmail.com: as a concrete example, let's pretend i have a site, beerintheOSM, which rates pubs and allows commenting and photo uploads. if i'm storing the reviews linked against pubs linked against OSM (name/location/ID), i definitely have to release the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL virality questions

2009-10-05 Thread Matt Amos
On 10/5/09, Laurence Penney l...@lorp.org wrote: It seemed clear that such data extractions would not be considered public domain, simply by virtue of having no grid reference or lat- long. They were part of MasterMap, hence regarded as chargeable data. that's the suck-'em-dry licensing model

[OSM-legal-talk] ODbL virality questions

2009-10-02 Thread Matt Amos
hi legals, i've come across a couple of interesting questions / use-cases for the ODbL and wider discussion. it basically reduces to whether we want the ODbL to have viral (GPL-like) behaviour, or whether it should be less viral (LGPL-like). we've discussed this at an LWG meeting and the general