[odc-discuss] ODbL -> BY-SA -> ?
Rob Myers
rob at robmyers.org
Thu Aug 26 10:34:29 UTC 2010
On 08/20/2010 01:02 PM, Jordan S Hatcher wrote:
>
> You've run a query and out spits some of this factual data. You then
> use it to make a really neat visualisation of that data, which you
> then CC-BY or CC-BY-SA license (or even use a proprietary license!).
> In my opinion, all the originality that goes into creating the
> visualisation is what you're licensing here, not the data underneath
> it all. Your visualisation isn't a database, it's a pretty picture
> that says something meaningful about the numbers, and the CC-BY-SA
> license covers the your pretty picture.
I've read this a couple of times and I think I now understand the
distinction.
Thanks. :-)
- Rob.
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