Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using description from wikipedia text (Tom Gregorovic)

2014-10-19 Thread Luis Villa
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Simon Poole si...@poole.ch wrote: Now the WMF has consistently supported that facts are not copyrightable, Correct. so there should not be any danger there Note that WMF is not the copyright holder in Wikipedia's content, so you of course have to take

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using description from wikipedia text (Tom Gregorovic)

2014-10-18 Thread Tom Lee
Tom, Licenses like CC and ODbL can only apply to copyrighted material, which must generally be a specific creative expression in a fixed medium. You can't copyright facts, nor opinions. Assuming you don't have some crazy natural language processing workflow in mind, you'll only be using the