[OSM-talk] wikipedia:fr edits

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Ed Avis<eda at waniasset.com> wrote:
> 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...

Wikipedia's policy on deriving coordinates from proprietary databases
is essentially undefined. They just started doing it one day with by
adding coordinate templates into articles and nobody thought about the
copyright implications.

Perhaps someone should make an effort to increase awareness of this
issue amongst legally interested Wikipedians?