On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:28 PM, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com <jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Guys, > Lets get back to one point : terms of service. > > We are talking about copyright here the whole time, but the contract > agreement in the terms of service are much more binding, they override > your copyright. > > If the terms of service do not allow mass database extraction, WP is > violating that on a large scale.
How? By having people look on their pages every now and again, and see around which coordinates they are at a certain point? If that is "mass database extraction" then simply looking at the maps is "mass database extraction on a truly enormous unprecedented scale". Besides, even _if_ we would agree that pulling some bits of data from a map or a picture based on a database which probably is not even _in_ that database as such would entail "mass database extraction", then still the only one breaking anything would be the person who originally determined that village X is at coordinates Y, not the people who next copy this bit of knowledge. -- André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
