[OSM-legal-talk] Deconstructing the "loss of data" claim

[A Morris]

> I have taken the liberty of modifying the "Copyright Easter Eggs"
> article on the Wiki to reflect that situation. Beforehand it seemed
> to imply that OSM was free of easter eggs ("because commercial data
> contains deliberate errors ... we need our own free and accurate
> geodata"), which obviously isn't true any more.
>
> Personally, I do not support the practice of deliberately inserting
> errors into our database.
>

Think of it more as "watermarking"
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