2009/8/13 Gernot Hillier <ger...@hillier.de> > Hi! > > Francisco R. Santos schrieb: > > Well, and finally, this is *my risk*. Everyone can see in OSM history > > that I added the data and can prosecute me if he believes there's any > > chance to win such a court case. > > > > The problem isn't that they'll prosecute *you* (OSM data belongs to the > > OSM foundation, so they'll prosecute OSM) > > I don't believe this is correct. >
Yes, sorry, you are right, I misinterpreted some wiki page. But the ending is the same: all your data could be reverted in case a copyright trial is lost. > > > I don't follow the legal list, but the perception I have from reading > > the common lists about wikipedia imports is: "it's not fully safe to do > > that, so, don't risk". > > And what about all the other dozens of data imports into OSM which are > nowerdays taking place each day? Think about TIGER data, boundaries and > coast lines as the most prominent example. All of them have licenses that allows to be imported by us, and all of them are known to be from trusted sources (The US government, in most cases) In Germany, we do automatic > data imports every few weeks, being it boundaries, village details, > coast lines, etc. > Well, that data must have a valid license to be able to be imported. I suppose that you check that before importing that, don't you? > Can you say anything about possible infringements of the creator of > these works? You can only assure this person grants you the right to > copy his data and trust him/her. > The problem with wikipedia is not its license, but that most geocoding data is known to be taken from google, and we are *explicitly* prohibited to use it's maps and aerial imagery. A layer *could* say that much of wikipedia geodata is derived work, and so, OSM too. So.. don't risk, thats all I say.
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