[OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

[Anthony]

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
>
> Anthony wrote:
>> And who told you that OSM is a collection of unoriginal facts?
>
> I did, last time I did some mapping. I faithfully recorded where the paths,
> gates and stiles were, rather than pulling some fictitious locations out of
> my ass.

I see.  So copyright only covers fiction, not non-fiction.  Sorry, I
never realized that.

> I realise that you've been far too busy trolling the mailing lists this year
> to actually do much mapping, given that
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Anthony%20/edits shows the grand total of
> six tiny edits in the last six months. But, you know, some of us are in this
> project to make a map, not just for the mailing list lulz.

I've pretty much stopped uploading my maps to OSM precisely because of
this switch to ODbL.