[OSM-talk] Massive import of airports

Robert Scott lists at humanleg.org.uk
Fri Dec 17 11:44:25 GMT 2010


On Friday 17 December 2010, Stefan de Konink wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Andrew Harvey wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Stefan de Konink <stefan at konink.de> wrote:
> >> Come on, this is non-sense. If someone accepted the CT and imports the data,
> >> it should be enough.
> >
> > I disagree, if there is reasonable evidence or suspicion that the data
> > may have licensing problems then we should ask the source of that data
> > for more details. If it turns out that the PD data really has been
> > traced from say a Google Map, then at least under OSM policy that data
> > cannot be uploaded to the database, hence we must remove that data.
> 
> Someone is innocent until proven guilty.

We are not a legal system. We are a project with funds that won't stretch very far when it comes to legal fees.


robert.



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