[OSM-legal-talk] wikidata cc0 <> odbl

2017-12-03 Thread Jo
Time to open up a whole new fresh can of worms Call me werid, but I like the idea of cooperation between opendata projects, but differences in licensing don't make this exactly easy. So here goes. Let's start with a node. a) I add a node (say for a school) to OSM. Since it's coming from an

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] wikidata cc0 <> odbl

2017-12-03 Thread Simon Poole
Well IMHO none of this is relevant, as we do not claim any rights in individual elements in our database. As a result every single operation for itself is completely OK. The issues start when you (and I include any method of work splitting in that) do any of them systematically in a way that is no

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] wikidata cc0 <> odbl

2017-12-03 Thread Jo
For the sake of the argument, let's add that I may intend to make the workflow easier by creating a JOSM plugin (or extending the wikipedia plugin with the wikidata Toolki WDTK). So it may become substantial or probably would be after enough time passes. So it's important to know what is and what i

[OSM-legal-talk] OSM data - Legal question about license agreement

2017-12-03 Thread Mike Razis
Hi, My name is Mike and I have a legal question with regards to the usage of OSM data. I'm an engineer who started a project with a few friends. Essentially, we're planning on creating scenes of various cities for fight simulators (and possible games later on). We get data from various diff