Since OSM is used around the world, shouldn't intellectual property laws in other countries be considered?
Nathan Grasso https://osm.org/user/Hexocyte On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 2:12 PM Mark Wagner <[email protected]> wrote: > In the United States, facts can't be copyrighted, only specific ways of > expressing them. If a news article says "the road is closed in the > winter from Wherezit Junction to Anytown", you can freely extract the > fact of the closure, look for the OSM ways corresponding to the > description, and apply a "closed in the winter" tag. > > (If the news article instead has a map of the closure, the copyright > situation becomes more questionable, because now you're copying not > just the facts of the closure, but possibly the way they're expressed > as well.) >
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