In a message dated 3/31/2010 12:21:33 PM Pacific Daylight Time, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com writes:
> In openstreetmap we are not allowed to import the positions of items > based on the locations in wikipedia because they are derived from > geoeye/googlemaps for the most part. So there is a rift between what > is supposedly creative commons and what is really creative commons. > Basically wikipedia is turning into a minefield of copyrighted material.>> Are you suggesting that the mechanical determination of a longitute and latitude of some object is copyrightable material? I.E. it's "position" is copyrightable? Or am I reading this wrong? Perhaps you're suggesting merely that the map, as an entirety is copyrightable. W.J. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
