[OSM-talk] Revert requests in general

[Nick Black]

So let's bring this back to people who want to create tools to make it easier for everyone to participate in OSM. How can we get past the problems and make it easy for people to map? 

Auth and new mappers workshop ++

Nick

On 7 Aug 2010, at 01:03, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 7:43 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7 August 2010 08:56, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > John Smith wrote:
> >>
> >> Even wikipedia doesn't take that attitude, they're currently being
> >> threatened by the FBI over a SVG image.
> >
> > Nothing to do with copyright, and thus completely irrelevant in this
> > discussion.
> 
> Wikimedia is claiming fair use, sounds like a copyright argument to me.
> 
> Nope. FBI's problem with Wikipedia has nothing to do with copyright. The work in question, the FBI seal, is the work of the U.S. Federal Government  which would make it public domain and thus there is no copyright in the first place. FBI's problem is that people might make fake FBI badges and stuff like that because Wikipedia provides a high-quality SVG image of the seal.
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