[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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