[OSM-talk] POIs from wikipedia

[Gervase Markham]

Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Well no matter where they came from, being Wikipedia they're 
> GNU FDL and if we incorporated them we'd have to switch to GNU FDL as
> well, at least that's how I read virulent licenses.

Wikipedia are working with the FSF to make the FDL "compatible" with 
CC-BY-SA 3. I expect that this will happen by the FSF adding a clause to 
the FDL saying "If you have no front-cover texts, no back-cover texts 
etc. etc, you may relicense this work under CC-BY-SA 3".

This is something we need to consider if we move away from CC-BY-SA. I 
can see the arguments for it, but unless we are careful, it does move us 
further away from the growing area of license compatibility.

Gerv