[OSM-talk] CC0 in UK, CC0 in USA, sui generis database right and Wikidata

[Mateusz Konieczny]

On Sun, 5 Nov 2017 21:29:21 +0100
Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> wrote:

> Back to WD: as pointed about above, the issue is not that the WMF is
> claiming that WD can be used on CC0 terms when it couldn't be, aka
> laundering the data (quite to the contrary), it is that because  we
> would need to vet the provenance of the data (because it is obviously
> from a large variety of non-declared sources) and that is a
> non-starter.

I attempted to describe situation at
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wikidata#Importing_data - can you
look at it? Hopefully it will help to avoid rehashing this topic in
future (and is rather closer to truth than
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata&oldid=1518440#Importing_data
claiming "data may be copied from Wikidata without restriction." since
2014 -
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata&diff=1053450&oldid=1045330
)