[OSM-talk] Maps and names

[Emil]

> On 9/1/06, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:

> Unless the lat/long coordinates in the original Wikipedia articles were
> collected using GPS then chances are that this information was lifted from a
> map.  Wikipedia's GFDL license would not protect us from the original
> copyright infringment.

Well some of us don't think taking coords from a map is copyright
infringement - as the posts below show, this view leads to ridiculous
conclusions. I'll say it again: you can't copyright facts.

I understand people are scared of lawyers - but I think some sort of
stand needs to be taken here - we need to call bullshit on the OS etc
who think they can copyright facts.

Emil