Colin Smale wrote: > As we are not copying the content from Wikipedia/Wikidata, but just > a reference
Unfortunately it's not quite that simple. The matching is done by co-ordinates. The co-ordinates in Wikidata could be held to be information copyrighted by Google. Consequently you could argue that the matching - "the selection or the arrangement of the contents of the database", to use the language from the Database Directive - is itself a derivative of Google's map data. To be clear, I'm not arguing one way or another - I've probably studied the related issues as much as anyone on this list and it's not obvious to me which way it would fall. But anything with the potential to affect such a large amount of OSM data in the UK needs a thorough legal review, lest we inadvertently encumber thousands of uses of OSM with Google IP. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/OSM-with-Wikidata-now-covers-UK-and-Ireland-tp5869546p5869613.html Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
