[OSM-legal-talk] Non-existant streets

[John Smith]

--- On Wed, 12/8/09, Emilie Laffray <emilie.laffray at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think I do now. As Vincent stated, I don't believe
> that OSM should contain non existent roads that are actually
> way to identify copyrighted data; that would be imported
> that said copyrighted data in OSM.

We're not trying to put copyrighted information in the database, we're recording an observation, no different then recording the name on a street sign, since we actually go out and see it, the only question is how to make it as easy as possible for others to know this too.