[OSM-talk] (licence of wikidata) was: Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

> Am 07.06.2015 um 21:37 schrieb Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com>:
> 
> Because in US copyright law, facts are not copyrightable. You can source the fact that "Washington, D.C." is the "capital of the United States of America" from a copyrighted book without that fact inheriting the copyright license of the book.


on the other hand, even if the idea behind it was different, not all data in wikidata are hard facts like the capital example. For example whether a city can be considered "metropolis" or "financial centre" is based on judgement and is not something that always gets decided the same way regardless of who makes the decision.

cheers 
Martin