Anthony wrote: > Eh, I'd take on Google pro se (or with the help of free EFF lawyers or > the like) over the issue of the ToS, and based on US law I'm pretty sure > I'd win. However, I'm aware that other users of OSM don't have the > benefit US-jurisdictional copyright law with respect to factual data, so > I won't do it, for their sake.
As it stands, the OSM database is in the UK. > Still, I can't get my head around what the rules exactly are. If I read > a newspaper article which says that Main Street has been renamed to > Independence Blvd, can I use that, or do I have to go out there myself > and check? It makes no sense. There's a difference between using one fact from a newspaper article, and systematically extracting data from a database to reuse in another database. It's the same principle that allows Wikipedia to get away with getting co-ordinates for individual articles by taking them from a map, and us doing the same for every point of interest on the map. -- Jonathan (Jonobennett) _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
