Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > Also, what about the location where data is combined? E.g. if wikidata > is in public domain, and US courts agree with that statement, anyone > in the US can combine it with OSM data? What about UK? In any > case, i suspect nothing we decide has any merit until the actual court > case in any of the locations.
OpenStreetMap takes and has always taken a whiter-than-white view of copyright. We aim to provide a dataset that anyone can use without fear of legal repercussions. It is not OSM's role to explore interesting grey areas in copyright, nor to push things to the extent that a court case is necessary. It has been settled for many years that we do not take co-ordinates from Wikipedia. They are mostly encumbered with Google copyright: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Obtaining_geographic_coordinates#Google_tools This is not a new issue and has been mentioned before in connection with Wikidata referencing. Our data is principally hosted in the UK and the OSM Foundation is a company registered in England & Wales, so as a broad assumption UK law applies (which is fairly maximalist on copyright and follows the sweat-of-the-brow doctrine) as well as the EU database right, at least until this benighted country takes leave of its senses forever and leaves the EU. :( Follow-ups probably best to legal-talk@. Richard -- Sent from: http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/General-Discussion-f5171242.html _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
