If you could give us a link where we can continue this discussion without being off topic, I'd gladly chime in with my viewpoint. We had dozens of mail threads on our local list in this topic in the past with some good pointers as well.
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 8:01 PM Mateusz Konieczny <matkoni...@tutanota.com> wrote: > > > > > 25 Jun 2019, 18:34 by ulamm.b...@t-online.de: > > We must not publish scans of historical maps as our own work, that could > violate copyright. > But if we use the informations shown in historical maps for free hand > drawings, we do not violate the copyright for maps. > > [citation needed] > > I am pretty sure that rewriting, redrawing, tracing and making other > derivative works is not cancelling > copyright on the original work. > > See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Derivative_works for > exploration about > this topic in a bit different context, but nearly everything should be > applicable and is describing > situation well. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work is also relatively readable > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
