[Geowanking] OGC Rights Management Summit

[SteveC]

On 31 May 2009, at 07:10, Marc Wick wrote:

> There are fundamental differences between source code and data.  
> Share-alike code does not prevent you from building complex  
> applications, whereas share-alike data is a show stopper for  
> anything not absolutely trivial.
>
> "..., OSM doesn't even let you do mashups." [1]
>
> I understand that OdbL is trying to address and alleviate some of  
> these issues. Unfortunately I fear that I am not going to understand  
> 'kafkaesque' legalese and I prefer licenses that I can understand  
> without having to consult a lawyer. Maybe somebody wants to take the  
> opportunity and explain in a few words how OdbL is supposed to work?

I said the process was kafkaesque, not the license itself. It always  
is, look at the GPLv3 process.

The ODbL looks a bit like CC-BY-SA for data, except that if you make  
something with the data (say, a printed map) then that 'produced work'  
can be licensed however you like so long as you don't reverse engineer  
the data back from that.

Best

Steve