Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: Who is the licensor / whose database is it?

2008-12-11 Thread Gustav Foseid
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Iván Sánchez Ortega [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Temporary files (or information arranged in memory) in your computer are considered databases, so I'd go with option 1. To be protectec under the database directive, you need to make a significant investment for the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: Who is the licensor / whose database is it?

2008-12-11 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: A *database* is a bunch of stuff in my computer's RAM. *Any* stuff at all. It need not even be in your computer's RAM. And not everything in your computer's RAM is a database (it needs to have been arranged systematically or methodically). Database

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: Who is the licensor / whose database is it?

2008-12-11 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: El Miércoles, 10 de Diciembre de 2008, Frederik Ramm escribió: 1. Each mapper has his own database, of which he makes a copy available to OSM under ODbL which then creates a derived database. In that case, of course, each mapper is a licensor, and OSM is a giant

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: Who is the licensor / whose database is it?

2008-12-11 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Jueves, 11 de Diciembre de 2008, Frederik Ramm escribió: Temporary files (or information arranged in memory) in your computer are considered databases, so I'd go with option 1. Even for someone who edits using Potlatch? IMHO, yes. Heck, I'd even hold that a data array of any kind held

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: Who is the licensor / whose database is it?

2008-12-11 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: El Jueves, 11 de Diciembre de 2008, Frederik Ramm escribió: Temporary files (or information arranged in memory) in your computer are considered databases, so I'd go with option 1. Even for someone who edits using Potlatch? IMHO, yes. Heck, I'd even hold

[OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: Who is the licensor / whose database is it?

2008-12-10 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, there is another open question concerning the implementation of the planned ODbL. To recap, the ODbL/FDL Duo will acknowledge that the individual data items are not subject to copyright, but as a database they are protected. The question is: Where is the database created and who is,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: Who is the licensor / whose database is it?

2008-12-10 Thread Sunburned Surveyor
Although option 3 as discussed above is likely the most legally fuzzy, it is also likely the most palatable to contributors. Landon On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, there is another open question concerning the implementation of the planned ODbL.