<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 09/01/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Richard Fairhurst</b> <<a href="mailto:richard@systemed.net">richard@systemed.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br><br>Please can we keep this to legal-talk to stop discussion fragmenting? Thanks.<br><br>Longbow4u wrote:<br><br>> After the<br>> proposed revision of the GFDL by the Free Software Foundation our maps will<br>
> probably be compatible with Wikipedia. If we would go for another copyleft<br>> licence this compatibility would not materialise.<br><br>Our maps are already available for inclusion in Wikipedia and it's<br>inconceivable that this would change - see earlier posting to
<br>legal-talk. I think your posting is good evidence of a widespread<br>truth: there is no way that OSM contributors would ever countenance a<br>change that would stop Wikipedia using our maps.<br><br>If Wikipedia does change to CC-BY-SA, its Collective Work provision
<br>will certainly allow Wikipedia to continue using OSM maps, whether OSM<br>uses CC-BY-SA, ODCL, public domain or whatever.<br><br>cheers<br>Richard<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list
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</div><br>I don't know much legally but...<br><br>If your required to say the map you've used is OSM then doesn't that make the map a bit seperate for the work you've put it on.<br><br>So if I make a wiki, website, book, or leaflet about something and as an illustration I put an OSM. The writing on my work still comes under standard copyright/my license rather than having to carry on the OSM license.
<br>If my license gives the data to someone they can't include the OSM graphic unless also agreeing to the OSM license, but they could put a black square there to censor it (or their own map, whatever).<br>If I had edited the OSM graphic to show something then anyone can take that graphic under the OSM license without taking my work/writing.
<br><br>If I'm right then compatibility isn't quite as much as an issue as the discussion has made me think.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Gregory<br><a href="mailto:nomoregrapes@gmail.com">nomoregrapes@gmail.com</a><br>
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