Robin Paulson wrote: > i'm slightly lost now, wondering how osm fits in to this. if wp users > can do it (i assume their legat team has looked through it?), why not > osm
I suspect the most likely explanation is that they simply don't realise it's not legal - I'd expect discussion on the page if they thought it was the case. And it's such a small part of Wikipedia that Google et al are hardly going to risk the bad press by going after them, whereas for us it's our raison d'etre. There are a couple of possible alternative explanations (copyright of geodata under US law, GFDL licensing of each article individually so it doesn't form a database) but ignorance is the most likely. cheers Richard _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
