[OSM-legal-talk] Monopoly City Streets

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Wed Sep 9 13:26:10 BST 2009


On 09/09/09 12:40, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote:
> El Miércoles, 9 de Septiembre de 2009, Jukka Rahkonen escribió:
>>> By the sound of that, it seems that they're joining up the GMaps data and
>>> the OSM data, and filtering out the street names in common.
>>
>> Do you think there might be something wrong in doing so?
>
> I do. I think that their DB is a derivative work of the OSM data and that
> share-alike should apply.

How on earth can you know that - we have no idea what they have actually 
done yet. You are all just guessing based on a few things in the blog.

How about we calm down, wait until the game is live this evening and we 
might be able to see what they've done and if it is a problem...

Tom

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