On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Richard Fairhurst <[email protected]> wrote: > > Lars Francke wrote: >> At the moment I'm displaying statistical data about a snapshot of >> the OSM data. > > Hooee, this is probably the single trickiest question I've seen. > > I can't find any precedents for whether aggregate statistics such as > OSMdoc's are considered derivative works. My gut feeling, and no more than > that, is that they probably aren't. You are not really deriving any > information that's in the OSM database and offering it up for reuse.
Lars' use case is a produced work[*]. How do we make this clear to the community and clearly permitted in the license? Our draft community guidelines on Produced Work[1] say: "If it was intended for the extraction of the original data, then it is a database and not a Produced Work. Otherwise it is a Produced Work. " Lars' Produced Work is a database, but his database is a list of keys and values with use totals. The Produced Work drops the geo location data and the connectivity data from OSM. This irreversibly prevents recreating or extracting the original data. So by the community guideline above OSMDoc is a Produced Work. Best regards, Richard [*] I've made some assumptions about how Lars makes OSMDoc. Corrections welcome. [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Produced_Work_-_Guideline _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
