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Originally Posted by Leav
but they used that drawing in a commercial way! the omni-wheel may be considered to be a derivative work of the initial drawing! (?)
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In the sense of a CC licence, "derivative work" means taking a CC-protected creative work and using parts of it in some other creative work—like using a CC-protected photo in a collage.
It doesn't apply to interpreting the information, and building something based upon it—like using a photograph of a bird as the basis for your own statue. (There are some cases where this isn't quite true, like when you're copying artistic details, but that's highly subjective, and has to be decided in court.)