[OSM-talk] Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 10:29 PM, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> wrote:

> Am 07.06.2015 um 14:12 schrieb Eugene Alvin Villar:
> ..
> >
> > So the advice of being wary of Wikidata's CC0 license should also be the
> > same advice for OSM's ODbL license.
> >
> The difference is that while we don't warrant that the OSM dataset is
> completely free of incompatible data, it is the intent and such data
> will be removed if identified. This isn't a panacea, but given the US
> DCMA and similar laws in other countries, probably good enough.
>
> There is AFAIK no such policy by the WMF, and as I said their
> (marketing) policy is that the problem can't exist.
>

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