Richard Fairhurst wrote: >> 4.6 Access to Derivative Databases. If You publicly Use a Derivative Database >> You must also offer to recipients of the Derivative Database a copy in a >> machine readable form of: >> >> a. The entire Derivative Database; or >> >> b. A file containing all of the alterations made to the Database offered >> under this Licence, including any additional Data, that make up all the >> differences between the Database and the Derivative Database.
Assuming I choose option (b), how does this work if the alterations are all subtractions? Say I'm converting a planet file for a hand-held device, and truncate all coordinates to 4 decimal places. If I don't want to publish the format for my Derivative Database, it sounds like I would need to publish a list like: - Add 0.0000123 to node 23 - Subtract 0.0000456 from node 42 Perhaps it's not worth treating the "translating the Database to a less-expressive form" case as different to any other modification case. But it does seem a bit like jumping through hoops, when it would be simpler to say "I truncated all coordinates to 4 decimal places" or even "the DD is a subset of the information in version X of the D, and here's a copy of that". -dair ___________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.refnum.com/ _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
