Tom, Licenses like CC and ODbL can only apply to copyrighted material, which must generally be a specific creative expression in a fixed medium. You can't copyright facts, nor opinions.
Assuming you don't have some crazy natural language processing workflow in mind, you'll only be using the ideas expressed in that Wikipedia text rather than their specific expression. These are not protected by copyright nor any derived license, so you should be free to use them. I am not a lawyer--by all means listen to the wisdom of others on this list--but I believe that there shouldn't be any licensing considerations present. (also) Tom On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 8:00 AM, <legal-talk-requ...@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > Send legal-talk mailing list submissions to > legal-talk@openstreetmap.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > legal-talk-requ...@openstreetmap.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > legal-talk-ow...@openstreetmap.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of legal-talk digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Using description from wikipedia text (Tom Gregorovic) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 16:15:50 +0200 > From: Tom Gregorovic <tomto...@gmail.com> > To: legal-talk@openstreetmap.org > Subject: [OSM-legal-talk] Using description from wikipedia text > Message-ID: > <CADETX0_BZrj3-iPj7iXHfYsb5PtnP754Mw= > hsxfmmk-tcai...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Dear all, > I just want to ask here, if it is legal and does not violate the OSM > license to map > mountain ranges according to text description of its borders from > wikipedia articles (e.g. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelengora#Topography). I would combine it > with contours/relief map of OpenCycleMap and mentioned rivers and peaks > from OSM to approximately estimate area of the mountain range. > > Thanks, > > Tom Gregorovic > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > legal-talk mailing list > legal-talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk > > > ------------------------------ > > End of legal-talk Digest, Vol 96, Issue 3 > ***************************************** >
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