1. Is it clear that a map tile is an image within the definition of a
Produced Work--a work (such as an image...) resulting from using the
whole or a Substantial part of the Contents?If not, what is the most
typical example of a Produced Work in the map context?
Consider a produced work of
What you're saying, basically, is that making a cake loses the (or some)
properties of the ingredients, thus a produced work; making a car
doesn't, thus not produced. (Of course making a car also entails
irreversible actions but let's ignore that for the moment.)
Transferred back to the map
So, in summary:
- No attribution
- Is a derived work released under Copyright
I assume this hasn't been cleared and 'waived' by someone at OSM? Where can
we go from here?
I think that in cases where we can prove such a 'mistake' we should send
them a letter and clearly indicate their wrong
Dear Mr President, I've got this photo showing you in bed with another
man, here's my bank account where you can make a donation, in which case
will forget about it...
... unless I need more money later in which case I might again remember?
Honestly, what you're suggesting smacks of blackmail.
Hello everybody,
I am still concerned that some business users cannot make use of
OpenStreetMap data because of the Share-Alike-rule as they don't want or
cannot share proprietary data. Personally, I am a big fan of the
Share-Alike-rule but I think there should be some exceptions.
I have the
Hi Frederick,
However, in terms of ODbL the
route description they produce will be a produced work which is based on
a database derived from OSM
a derivative database that is only used to create a Produced Work is
excluded from the share-alike:
4.5 Limits of Share Alike. The requirements of
2. If you manage to do your pre-processing in a way that only mixes your
static network data with OSM, resulting in a data structure that
contains information like transit from stop X to stop Y possible for
these types of vehicles and so on, and then your router process, upon
startup, reads this
