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5. May 2018 16:14 by <a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>On 5. May 2018, at 15:39, Mateusz Konieczny <<a href="mailto:matkoniecz@tutanota.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">matkoniecz@tutanota.com</a>> wrote:<br /></div><div><br /><blockquote class="thunderbird_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93a3b8 ; padding-left: 10px ; margin-left: 5px"><p>How copying location data[1] from Google Maps (or other source) via Wikipedia and Wikidata differs</p><p>from direct copying from Google maps from legal point of view?</p></blockquote><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>if you copy from Google, it is against their terms. If you copy from a cc0 dataset like wikidata and someone upstream sues you for doing it, you could refer them to Wikidata. </div></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Are you sure? CC0 has "Affirmer offers the Work as-is and makes no
representations or <br /></p><p>warranties of any kind concerning the
Work, express, implied, statutory or otherwise, <br /></p><p>including (...) non infringement"</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode</a><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And "refer them to Wikidata" would not change that we would need redact such data, <br /></p><p>possibly destroying correct and valuable edits <br /></p><p>(see <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/karitotp/diary/43824" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/karitotp/diary/43824</a> for a small-scale issue).<br /></p><p> <br /></p><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>Are you sure wikimedia doesn’t have an agreement with google?</div></blockquote><br />I have no idea, I would be happy to discover that my worries are unfounded.<br /><br />But I have encountered no evidence whatsoever about any methods allowing use to import<br />data from Google Maps via Wikidata (and I would be surprised to discover one)<br /> </body>
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