Hello,
we had this topic on legal-talk one year ago[1] and there were no
opposition against my arguments. So it seems to be uncritical.
I also present the idea lots of wikipedians and there was also no
protest. Wikipedia want's the cooperation with OpenStreetMap and doesn't
reclaim "database protection".
Greetings Kolossos
[1]http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2011-April/005907.html
Am 28.10.2012 14:08, schrieb Fabien SK:
Hi,
Some times ago, I used also used data from Wikipedia to complete the
names of Japanese cities. But someone pointed out that it is not allowed
because:
- the Openstreetmap and Wikipedia licenses are not compatible
- even if the names cannot be copyrighted, there is in the European
Union a "database directive" that protects the databases (=the result of
collecting data; even if it contains only well-known data) in a similar
way that the copyright. In the US and in Australia, it would be allowed.
So I gave up on that idea and rolled-back my modifications. I limited my
modifications to the addition of the wikipedia tag to the japanese train
stations (in progress; discussion in the OSM-tagging and japanese
mailing lists). I used offline dumps of OSM and Wikipedia, OSMembrane,
python scripts and JOSM to do that.
Fabien
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