[cc-community] Computer-generated derivative
Richard Fairhurst
richard at systemeD.net
Mon Mar 9 08:04:25 EDT 2009
Hello all,
We're having the usual lively discussion over on the OpenStreetMap
mailing lists and it was suggested (thanks Rob) that it might be
worth asking on the CC lists too.
If Fred has a program running on his computer that downloads
OpenStreetMap data (licensed CC-BY-SA), then combines it with some
proprietary, non-CC-BY-SA stuff, that's perfectly ok as long as Fred
doesn't then distribute the result. In fact, Fred isn't actually
_allowed_ to distribute the result.
And therefore, I presume the same is true if the program is a Flash
app (running client-side, of course, albeit with a browser frame
around it) which outputs the result as a PDF - which Fred can then
save to his local hard drive and/or print.
Am I right?
(See also http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2009-
March/002215.html , in particular the second reply, and http://
lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2008-October/001654.html )
cheers
Richard
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