[OSM-talk] Illegal activity

[Russ Nelson]

Ulf Lamping writes:
 > Russ Nelson schrieb:
 > > Peteris Krisjanis writes:
 > >  > Anyway, to resume all this discussion - PLEASE don't trace from photo
 > >  > without permission for OSM, whatever your temptations are.
 > > 
 > > Errrr, no.  The USGS Digital Ortho Quads are in the public domain; no
 > > permission necessary to trace off of them.
 > 
 > If the material is "licensed as public domain", this *is* one of the 
 > possible permissions Peteris is talking about.
 > 
 > Is this really that hard to get?

Seemingly, since you don't understand that when something is in the
public domain, there is no copyright owner to get permission from.  It
sounds like your conflating a public domain work which is free of
copyright with a copyrighted work licensed "as if" it were public
domain.

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