Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using description from wikipedia text (Tom Gregorovic)

2014-10-18 Thread Tom Lee
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

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using description from wikipedia text

2014-10-18 Thread Michal Palenik
I believe that in this specific case, the wikipedia article should have proper sources on the borders (which should be public domain). michal On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 04:15:50PM +0200, Tom Gregorovic wrote: Dear all, I just want to ask here, if it is legal and does not violate the OSM license