Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-11-02 Thread Tobias Knerr
On 30.10.2012 13:30, Michael Collinson wrote: I propose that we base a re-write on: *OpenStreetMap considers **Open Data to be a usefully collected set of intelligently or machine-made physical observations only. Purely algorithmic augmentation of data and re-casting of data to use, store or

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-11-02 Thread Paul Norman
From: Tobias Knerr [mailto:o...@tobias-knerr.de] Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 12:14 AM To: legal-talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL On 30.10.2012 13:30, Michael Collinson wrote: I propose that we base a re-write

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-11-01 Thread Jonathan Harley
On 01/11/12 04:20, James Livingston wrote: On 30 October 2012 20:46, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org mailto:frede...@remote.org wrote: On 10/30/12 08:19, Igor Brejc wrote: Some then say that these in-memory data structures are also Derivative Databases. In what

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-11-01 Thread Rob Myers
On 10/31/2012 09:20 PM, James Livingston wrote: there isn't really a clear line between a permanent database and a transient structure. Other than that the former can be made available and the latter cannot (practically speaking). - Rob. ___

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-31 Thread Jonathan Harley
On 30/10/12 13:47, Michael Collinson wrote: On 30/10/2012 13:07, Jonathan Harley wrote: [snip] One thing that's confusing me, is that http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright does not say what license applies to the contents. ODbL specifically says that it only applies to the database and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/10/30 Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org: See also: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Closed_Issues#What_sort_of_access_to_Derivative_Databases_is_required.3F The page is quite old; the green boxes represent legal advice that we have received at the time. It is also

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-30 Thread Jonathan Harley
(After a hiatus - I've been discussing this off-list with Anthony and others.) On 22/10/12 23:13, Anthony wrote: On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/10/22 Jonathan Harley j...@spiffymap.net: Anyway, the ODbL is explicit that an image is

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-30 Thread Michael Collinson
Hi Igor and fellow legal-talk, A rather long email, so summary: I am rather hijacking Igor's email, but I hope it will help provide an answer though not immediately. The present Trivial Transformation Community Guideline, [1], is applying tactics and discussion without having any overriding

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-30 Thread Igor Brejc
Hi Michael, For my part, I really like your proposed wording and I hope we'll reach consensus on these issues in a way that satisfies both producers and consumers of OSM data. Best regards, Igor On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: ** Hi Igor and fellow

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-30 Thread Igor Brejc
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: On 10/30/12 08:19, Igor Brejc wrote: Some then say that these in-memory data structures are also Derivative Databases. In what form can you then offer such a Database to someone that requests it? I don't think

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-30 Thread Michael Collinson
On 30/10/2012 13:07, Jonathan Harley wrote: (After a hiatus - I've been discussing this off-list with Anthony and others.) [snip] One thing that's confusing me, is that http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright does not say what license applies to the contents. ODbL specifically says that

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-30 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Igor, I'd like to address a couple of points. On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Igor Brejc igor.br...@gmail.com wrote: Not one company will dare to give out their proprietary source code to someone, even if they release it under a very strict license. The risks of someone inadvertently then

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-30 Thread Michael Collinson
On 30/10/2012 13:07, Jonathan Harley wrote: (After a hiatus - I've been discussing this off-list with Anthony and others.) On 22/10/12 23:13, Anthony wrote: On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/10/22 Jonathan Harley j...@spiffymap.net:

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-30 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
deliberately Offlist 2012/10/30 Michael Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz: No loop hole. Unless I am missing something earlier in the thread, this is covering very old ground. This is the LWG understanding: The buzz phrase is layered copyright. Using an open licensed photo of a MacDonald's

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-30 Thread Rob Myers
On 10/30/2012 07:19 AM, Igor Brejc wrote: Some then say that these in-memory data structures are also Derivative Databases. They also cannot request RAM dumps of the routers and switches that ODbL data is transmitted over as they download it. - Rob.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-29 Thread Michael Collinson
Hi Igor, I wonder if this resource helps with your question? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Trivial_Transformations_-_Guideline (a work in progress) Mike On 22/10/2012 18:45, Igor Brejc wrote: Hi, Thanks for your clarifications, everybody. I was under the (looks

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-29 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
Hi Igor, IANAL, so the following are just my opinions. On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 1:07 AM, Igor Brejc igor.br...@gmail.com wrote: They also don't really answer the question what is a Database. Let's take, for example, the statement Rendering databases, for example those produced by Osm2pgsql,

[OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-22 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM)
I have a question concerning the ability of someone creating produced works from an ODbL-licensed database to license that produced work for use by others. Strictly speaking it's a question about the ODbL, rather that OSM, but since it will have a significant effect on OSM users, I thought I would

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-22 Thread Igor Brejc
Hi, My understanding (emphases are mine): “*Contents*” – The contents of this Database, which includes the information, independent works, or other material collected into the Database. For example, the contents of the Database could be factual data or works such as *images*, audiovisual

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-22 Thread Richard Fairhurst
calculated to make any Person... exposed to the Produced Work) - besides, in practice, why wouldn't you want to? - but I think Robert disagrees with me on this. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/OSM-legal-talk-Licenses-for-Produced-Works-under-ODbL

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-22 Thread Igor Brejc
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.netwrote: Produced Works do not have to be licensed under a share-alike licence. Attribution is required, as per the above clause. My view is that this implies a downstream attribution requirement too (reasonably calculated

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-22 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2012/10/22 Igor Brejc igor.br...@gmail.com: Would there be a difference if it was PNG/SVG instead of PDF? there are 2 ways to put graphics into a PDF: those with vectors embedded and those with a raster inside. The first is to treat like a SVG and the second like a PNG (always asuming you

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-22 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM)
On 22 October 2012 10:44, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Produced Works do not have to be licensed under a share-alike licence. Attribution is required, as per the above clause. My view is that this implies a downstream attribution requirement too (reasonably calculated to make

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-22 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 10/22/12 12:07, Igor Brejc wrote: 2. I generate a PDF map from that extract using an unpublished, closed-source software. The map includes the appropriate OSM attribution text. 1. Is this possible? Yes (assuming that the PDF is not a database). 2. What are my

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-22 Thread Igor Brejc
Hi, Thanks for your clarifications, everybody. I was under the (looks like wrong) impression the produced work must also be available under the ODbL license. One issue still bugs me though: If the closed software you have used did not work on the data directly, but on some sort of pre-processed

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-22 Thread Jonathan Harley
On 22/10/12 16:35, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 2012/10/22 Jonathan Harley j...@spiffymap.net: You have an obligation to make your derivative database available, if you made one. or describe the details and release the code, how you did it, in this case you don't have to release the data.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-22 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 22.10.2012 18:45, Igor Brejc wrote: What does pre-processed or augmented data really mean? OSM data has to be preprocessed to get to the form suitable for rendering. Some examples of preprocessing: 1. Importing it into PostGIS and flattening the geometries (like Mapnik does it).

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-22 Thread Paul Norman
From: Frederik Ramm [mailto:frede...@remote.org] Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 11:53 AM To: legal-talk@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL Another interesting question is how easy the algorithm you specify must be. It is clear

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for Produced Works under ODbL

2012-10-22 Thread Igor Brejc
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: 2. Generalizations: simplifications of roads, polygons etc. for a certain map scale. Same process - either you share the generalized data or you share the algorithm that produces it. If, for example, you were