On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 9:42 PM, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > That might be the case if the data is a single image, but if there is > a base layer plus a data layer then what?
Ultimately it is made into a single image before it is displayed on the monitor. The fact that this is done by the client computer is essentially irrelevant. >> I'm also under the impression that the ODbL allows this, which would >> mean they effectively *can* improve on the work without releasing the >> improvements under a free license, they just have to put the >> improvements in a separate layer. > > Which is probably why they didn't want to touch OSM data since it > would be the base data and stuff would be added to it, rather than the > other way round. > If the data were ODbL, and ODbL does indeed allow mashups, this is easily circumvented. Take the OSM data, delete everything but what you're interested in (say, outlines of buildings in Grenoble), release that edited file, and use that as your data layer. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
