[OSM-talk] wikipedia:fr edits

[Ed Avis]

Pieren <pieren3 <at> gmail.com> writes:

>>Looks like there's been a lot of wikipedia:fr based edits from
>>http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/paddiloo/edits -- is this now ok?

>After analysis, it seems that a bot is making a massive import of
>copyrighted data from the IGN in France. I sent a mail to
>data <at> osmfoundation.org so I hope that it will be blocked very soon...

The licence used by Wikipedia is essentially the same as that used by OSM,
so this person should also be blocked from adding the IGN copyrighted data to
Wikipedia.  (Or if someone else added it there, it should be removed.)

That is, unless Wikipedia and the OSM project disagree about the legal status
of the information and whether it can be distributed under CC-BY-SA, in which
case you need to ask the legal-talk mailing list...

-- 
Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>