On 16/giu/2013, at 12:14, Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> that's indeed interesting, how can they throw the original viral licenses of
>> Wikipedia overboard?
>
> Based on what I've seen, what they are copying from Wikipedia are data and
> facts. In the US, facts are not copyrightable as facts do not originate from
> creative authorship and there are no database rights in the US either.
but the wikipedia terms of use require you to attribute, for instance. If the
terms wouldn't apply in this case, couldn't we start to copy facts from other
maps just as well?
cheers,
Martin
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