[OSM-legal-talk] There is no copyright on way tags like street names

Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org
Wed Dec 28 10:59:42 GMT 2011


Hi,

On 12/28/11 01:57, Jo wrote:
> Simply add odbl=clean to the way, after verifying it and you'll be fine.

In theory, yes. But I have specifically cautioned this particular user 
against using odbl=clean because his views about what is clean and what 
isn't do not agree with what the rest of the project thinks.

Widespread use of odbl=clean by someone who believes that, essentially, 
all copyright lies with the last editor, will only lead to odbl=clean 
becoming worthless, and ignored altogether.

Bye
Frederik



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