On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
Well no, Mike, I don't think so. What rights a publisher grants to
Wikipedia has nothing to do with what rights a publisher grants to
OpenStreetMap. Wikipedia has no ownership interest in OpenStreetMap,
nor vice-versa.
If the data is creative commons we can't use it. We can't neither fulfill the
attribution nor is it compatible with the contributor terms which allows
changing the license.
Stephan
On April 19, 2014 5:19:54 PM CEST, Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
wrote:
On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at
Oh i almost forgot. Well look, they could use the otrs for marking it as
public domain. I am sure you can modify the otrs text to include a special
text for osm as well.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Email_templates
so just add in the osm text as well as the creative commons. make it
If they want to release it under public domain they should just stick a CC0
or PDDL license on it. This would be far simpler than trying to figure out
how a grant of rights to a third-party organization affects us, and would
allow the use of the data by anyone, including Wikipedia, without any
