[OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

[John Smith]

On 5 August 2010 23:42, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Hey Google, you can have our unoriginal facts but please don't copy the
> Osmarender map style, or the way we write our XML. Thanks.

Mapping isn't about recording pure fact, otherwise we'd simply convert
GPX data to map data automagically.

We are instead interrupting raw factual data into much more useful
information, which is some what subjective, which is the same reason
facts into information on wikipedia would be protected by copyright,
the same as travel guides the same as .......