[odc-discuss] ODbL: Does publishing Produced Work from Derivative Database trigger Derivative Database ShareAlike?

Richard Weait richard at weait.com
Tue Mar 3 16:09:00 UTC 2009


Hi all,

Please forgive my quote clipping.  I'm looking for an answer that I did
not find.  My summary below.

Jordan Hatcher wrote:
> Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> > Rufus Pollock wrote:
> > > Frederik Ramm Wrote:
> > > > I have always assumed that the idea behind the ODbL "Produced Work" was: 
> > > > If you take an ODbL-licensed database, add some data to it, and then 
> > > > make a "Produced Work" and publish that, then the share-alike clause 
> > > > applies to the derived database that you have created in the process 
> > > > (even if it was just a by-product that you did not originally want to 
> > > > publish).
> > > > 
> > > > Is that a correct interpretation?
> > > > 
> > > > If so, I am currently struggling to find the right "thread" through the 
> > > > license that describes the above.
> > > 
> > > I don't think so.  (Warning: I'm not a drafter of the license or a
> > > legal expert so I may be getting some of this wrong but ...).
> > 
> > I agree (FWIW) that the licence does say that, but I'm rather  
> > surprised that it does. It looks almost like an error that has cropped  
> > up in the latest revision.
> 
> The change from "Use" to "Convey" was relatively recent -- within the  
> past few weeks -- and is something that went back to the pro bono  
> lawyer for OSM.

Frederik: Does publishing Produced Work from Derivative Database trigger
Derivative Database ShareAlike?  

Rufus: Not as I read it.

Richard F.: I thought that publishing Produced Work from Derivative
Database was supposed to trigger Derivative Database ShareAlike?  

Jordan: I changed from "Use" to "Convey".  

Richard W. (now):  Does publishing Produced Work from Derivative
Database trigger Derivative Database ShareAlike?

Best regards,
Richard





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