[OSM-legal-talk] Place name translations

[SomeoneElse]

Someone's being adding translations of place names using:

http://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C4%85ra%C5%A1as:Jungtin%C4%97s_Karalyst%C4%97s_miestai

(which in turn references something else, according to the wikipedia page)

Apparently "Place names translations are public knowledge and it can be 
used on OSM".

Does this sound plausible?  I genuinely have no idea....

Cheers,
Andy