[OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

[Anthony]

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:08 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6 August 2010 01:02, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
>> Call it "mapping for the renderer" if you want.  Call it a violation
>> of the rules of OSM.  But that's a copyrightable work.
>
> So would any use of the smoothness tagging and any other subjective
> tagging for that matter...

Bottom line is it doesn't matter.  Even if I broke the rules of OSM
while creating it, I'm still entitled to the copyright on my work.
That means no, Google can't copy it without licensing the derivatives
under CC-BY-SA (*), and it means when OSM switches to ODbL, they get
to revert it back to the old TIGER ways which don't even reflect the
new construction.

(*) And really why would they want to?  It's much easier for them,
from both a technical and a legal perspective, to simply create their
own geometries from scratch.