My position is that images are Produced Works, not a derived OSM database.
Rendered images are a creative work that requires skill and judgement. This is an important use case and ODbL Section 1 Definitions specifically includes "images" in the definition of Produced Work. I further believe that a directory tree full of images ./zoom/x/y are still Produced Work and that even a database of these Produced Work images is still a Produced Work. In the special case of somebody creating a "renderer" that takes input from the OSM database and renders it as OCR text, then uses a "post-processing" step to OCR-to-text back into a database; that is reverse engineering and covered in the Reverse Engineering clause. Rendered images being Produced Work is an important use case judging from the level of discussion. Perhaps the legal team can assure us that we are fine and the the legal reading supports our goals. If not perhaps they can fix the terms of the license and / or the preamble to make this both clearer to laymen and clear in law. Best regards, Richard _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
