[OSM-talk] Sourcing street names - what's the policy, and why?

[Roy Wallace]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
>
>> To put it in other words for you, "as to what constitutes a copyright
>> infringement", I'm more confident in the consensus legal opinion than
>> in my own legal opinion.
>
> I wasn't aware that there was a consensus legal opinion as to what
> constitutes a copyright infringement with regard to casual non-systematic
> repetition of street names found in an online map.
>
> The only "consensus" that I'm aware of is the position of a large majority
> of (mostly non-lawyer) OSM mappers "to err on the safe side", by which they
> mean to never use copyrighted sources without explicit permission.

And I am more confident in siding with the "large majority of OSM
mappers", than to do otherwise based on my own legal opinion. I "find
it incredibly strange" that you "find it incredibly strange". Anyway,
let's move on.