On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Roy Wallace <waldo000...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Anthony <o...@inbox.org> wrote: > > > > I find it incredibly strange that you're more comfortable relying on "the > > consensus" than your own judgment, but hey, whatever works for you. > > To put it in other words for you, "as to what constitutes a copyright > infringement", I'm more confident in the consensus legal opinion than > in my own legal opinion. > I wasn't aware that there was a consensus legal opinion as to what constitutes a copyright infringement with regard to casual non-systematic repetition of street names found in an online map. The only "consensus" that I'm aware of is the position of a large majority of (mostly non-lawyer) OSM mappers "to err on the safe side", by which they mean to never use copyrighted sources without explicit permission.
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