[OSM-talk] ODbL-clean Coastlines

[Nathan Edgars II]

On 3/24/2012 7:13 AM, David Groom wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Norman" <penorman at mac.com>
>> - Adopting changesets. Many of the dirty ways and nodes appear to be
>> imported. If the imported just imported PD data than they have no IP
>> in the
>> ways and they can be retained.
>
> Are you saying that it is impossible for data originally derived from PD
> to ever have IP in it, no matter what else is subsequently done to it?

No. What he's saying is that the person who imported, by simply 
importing PD data without adding anything to it, has no copyright 
interest in it.