[OSM-legal-talk] Legal status of Wikimedia map

[Albertas Agejevas]

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:08:40PM +0200, Maarten Deen wrote:
> I am planning a trip to Kosovo and am therefor looking for sources to make the 
> map in Kosovo better.
> I have found a map in SVG of Kosovo here: 
> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kosovo_map-nl.svg>
> Permission for reuse is either GNU of cc-by-sa. Does this make it ok to use this 
> map in OSM (given proper atrribution and messaging the author)?

If you intend to message the author anyway, you could ask for an
explicit permission to use the map for OSM.

Albertas