On Sunday 07 June 2015, Simon Poole wrote: > > - individual facts extracted from wikipedia articles. From a WMF pov > unproblematic since "facts can't be copyrighted", from an OSM pov > problematic because they might have originally been extracted from a > 3rd party source and might be from a database rights pov, a > substantial extract of that source (for example POI data from google) > if included wholesale in OSM.
*Individual* facts are never an issue, neither under copyright nor database rights, it only becomes a problem w.r.t. database rights once you systematically transfer data on a larger scale. In other words a single source=wikipedia is not a problem, it only becomes an issue when it occurs in larger numbers. It is of course somewhat difficult to draw the line here. But no mapper should feel required to refrain from looking into wikipedia while mapping IMO or ban copyrighted books from his/her library out of fear for license problems. Of course it never hurts to verify information from Wikipedia (or from books for that matter) with a second independent source. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
