Thanks, Alex. I hadn't known about sections 4.5b and 4.5c before; that's really helpful to have a sense of the distinction between "derivative database" and "produced work".
And indeed, I've worked through my city's building import (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/BTV-Prints), and look forward to continuing contributions to OSM! -B ---------- William Morris | Senior Visualization Engineer Faraday Inc | faraday.io | (802)-458-0441 x336 | SF/VT/FR/WI On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Alex Barth <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Richard Weait <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 11:40 AM, William Morris >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Please let me know if I should direct this at a different list, but I >> > have a basic question about the implications of the ODBL: >> > >> > OSM is brimming with great POIs and network features; I'd like to use >> > some of these categories to answer broad questions like "How far is >> > this customer from the nearest park/school/whatever"? Unfortunately, >> > I'm not precisely sure of my legal obligation once I've answered that >> > question. Specifically, would I be required to contribute the location >> > of the customer back to OSM? If not, does that still hold when I >> > upscale it to millions of customers? >> > >> > Thanks for the assistance, in any case. I know this is a somewhat >> > contentious issue for the community, and I'd rather not make any >> > assumptions. >> >> ODbL isn't contentious among OpenStreetMap contributors at all. We've >> all agreed to ODbL as a matter of course, in getting our contributor >> accounts. Sounds like you've been mislead by somebody with a bone to >> pick. Ignore them. :-) >> >> The right mailing list for license-realted questions or discussions is >> legal-talk@[1] >> >> On the face of your question, I would be surprised if OpenStreetMap >> would want to know the current location of an individual. That seems >> to fly in the face of the respect for individual privacy that >> OpenStreetMap demonstrates. I've presumed that your customer is a >> person, as they go about their day. That presumption could be way off >> base. >> >> It could go the other way, I suppose. If your customer is a business >> or POI that isn't included in OpenStreetMap, well then, yes >> OpenStreetMap would like that data. > > > For the terms of the license it doesn't matter what data is interesting for > OpenStreetMap or not at all, but rather what licensing terms apply. If you > create data by computation based on OpenStreetMap data you are clearly > creating a Produced Work and the data is unencumbered by the share alike > provisions. > > Of course, if you have awesome data for OpenStreetMap, please contribute! > > Alex > > > > > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
