Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-12-02 Thread Jonathan Harley
On 01/12/11 00:33, James Livingston wrote: On 1 December 2011 00:18, Jonathan Harley j...@spiffymap.net mailto:j...@spiffymap.net wrote: By way of analogy: suppose I sent you a private email which included a license saying if you publicly use my email, you must share with me any

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-30 Thread Rob Myers
On 29/11/11 22:27, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: IMHO there is a difference between a travel photo and a map rendering. This is a jpeg: http://www.tnooz.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/ITA-QR-code-1.jpg This is a perfect example of the difference between the content and the structure of a

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-29 Thread Ed Avis
Eugene Alvin Villar seav80@... writes: Taking this argument to its logical conclusion, every digital file is a database of bytes Yes, I suggest that legally speaking this is likely to be the case. Certainly any digital file that is in a documented, structured file format with certain fields in

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-29 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: The European definition of a database is a collection of independent works, data or other materials arranged in a systematic or methodical way and individually accessible by electronic or other means. Individual pixels comprising

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-29 Thread Jonathan Harley
On 28/11/11 23:59, James Livingston wrote: On 28 November 2011 21:55, 80n 80n...@gmail.com mailto:80n...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org mailto:frede...@remote.org wrote: I could render a map from OSM and then render

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-29 Thread Rob Myers
Eugene Alvin Villar seav80@... writes: The European definition of a database is a collection of independent works, data or other materials arranged in a systematic or methodical way and individually accessible by electronic or other means. Which really, really should be the end of this. A

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-29 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2011/11/29 Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org: A PNG doesn't fit this description as its intent is to encode a single complete image and the pixels are not independent. Likewise PNG and SVG. Place them in a systematic or methodical collection and you have a database of images. But this is separate

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-29 Thread James Livingston
On 30 November 2011 01:03, Jonathan Harley j...@spiffymap.net wrote: On 28/11/11 23:59, James Livingston wrote: Depending on the rendering, it may not be the same. The placements of name text can depend on other data so it's not on top of something else, or POIs can be hidden if there are

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-29 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:18 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote: I think the word independent also applies to data and other materials. I don't think so. Claiming that a collection of data would not be a database if the Data is Not independent  does not make much sense

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-28 Thread 80n
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Whatever you publish could have other ingredients than just data; perhaps, a few hundred hours' worth of a cartographer's editing in Illustrator. *That* you don't have to release; it is yours to keep. That can't be

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Frederik Ramm wrote: I think that anything said until here will not be disputed by Richard Indeed not. :) the bit that *can* be disputed is whether or not it is permissible to label your resulting image a database and then not release the database behind it. Yep. I read the EU Database

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 11/28/11 10:43, 80n wrote: If you cannot reproduce the Produced Work 100% faithfully from the Derived Database in what sense does the Derived Database contain all of the information required to create the Produced Work? It doesn't, and it doesn't have to. Only in so far as the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-28 Thread 80n
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, On 11/28/11 10:43, 80n wrote: If you cannot reproduce the Produced Work 100% faithfully from the Derived Database in what sense does the Derived Database contain all of the information required to create the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 11/28/11 11:58, 80n wrote: That's a very fine line you are trying to draw. Yes, I agree it is difficult. I think that it is entirely possible to arrive at an identical end product through different processes, where one process has different license implications than the other. For

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-28 Thread 80n
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Hi, On 11/28/11 11:58, 80n wrote: That's a very fine line you are trying to draw. Yes, I agree it is difficult. I think that it is entirely possible to arrive at an identical end product through different

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-28 Thread Jonathan Harley
On 28/11/11 11:55, 80n wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org mailto:frede...@remote.org wrote: Yes, I agree it is difficult. I think that it is entirely possible to arrive at an identical end product through different processes, where one

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-28 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 6:00 AM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: I see that you and Frederik disagreed here.  (FWIW I think he is right - a PNG file can clearly be seen as a database of pixel values.  It is an image too, and perhaps even a map or a photograph, but legally it would be hard to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-28 Thread 80n
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 6:00 AM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: I see that you and Frederik disagreed here. (FWIW I think he is right - a PNG file can clearly be seen as a database of pixel values. It is an

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-28 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:31 AM, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar sea...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 6:00 AM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: I see that you and Frederik disagreed here.  (FWIW I think he is right - a PNG

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-28 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 11/28/2011 12:55 PM, 80n wrote: I could render a map from OSM and then render something else on top of it, say a commercially acquired set of hotel POIs. That would clearly be a Produced Work; I could point anyone asking for the source data to the planet file and the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-28 Thread James Livingston
On 28 November 2011 21:55, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.orgwrote: I could render a map from OSM and then render something else on top of it, say a commercially acquired set of hotel POIs. That would clearly be a Produced Work; I

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-28 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
I think the word independent also applies to data and other materials. I don't think so. Claiming that a collection of data would not be a database if the Data is Not independent does not make much sense IMHO ___ legal-talk mailing list

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-27 Thread 80n
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: Right, so I guess what Kai Kruger wrote you only have to share the last in a chain of derived databases that leads to a produced work, right? is not so? As far as I can see there is no requirement to show your workings as

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and publishing source data

2011-11-27 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 11/27/2011 11:00 PM, Ed Avis wrote: I believe I was thinking of this thread: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.openstreetmap.legal/6306 I see that you and Frederik disagreed here. [...] The access to source data clause in ODbL expressly applies to both Derivative Databases and