[OSM-legal-talk] Reverse Geocoding

Robert (Jamie) Munro rjmunro at arjam.net
Fri Apr 4 00:02:55 BST 2008


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Frederik Ramm wrote:

| My answer was two-part: (1) I'm not sure whether the minuscle amount
| of data you would use from OSM is actually protected by copyright and
| would trigger the viral SA element of the license,

I think that's like looking up someone's address in the phone book, then
writing it on a letter. Not copyrightable, and not significant for
database rights.

| (PS: Could we please simply go PD because then I wouldn't have to
| waste anyone's time with questions like this...?)

Good idea. I'm in :-)

Or could we all assign our data (non-exclusively) to the foundation so
that they can issue waivers for specific cases like this.

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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