On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Ed Avis<[email protected]> wrote: > That is, unless Wikipedia and the OSM project disagree about the legal status > of the information and whether it can be distributed under CC-BY-SA, in which > case you need to ask the legal-talk mailing list...
Wikipedia's policy on deriving coordinates from proprietary databases is essentially undefined. They just started doing it one day with by adding coordinate templates into articles and nobody thought about the copyright implications. Perhaps someone should make an effort to increase awareness of this issue amongst legally interested Wikipedians? _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

