[OSM-talk] Maps and names

[Richard Fairhurst]

Lars wrote:

> While the Geonet names server aims to cover the entire globe, the
> lists published by Stefan Kühn has the advantage that every name
> is backed up by a Wikipedia article.  And since the underlying
> Wikipedia is GFDL licensed, I guess there won't be any problems
> with copyright.

I wouldn't take that as evidence there aren't any problems with  
copyright, more that most Wikipedia contributors don't understand the  
issues with deriving co-ordinates from a copyrighted map.

But, that said, if it's in a separate layer, then (depending on your  
interpretation of CC-SA) it may not be a problem anyway.

cheers
Richard