[OSM-talk] Licence compatibility (was Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag)

[Yuri Astrakhan]

Thanks Richard. Understood about coordinates. I suspect that most of the
Wikidata+OSM value is not related to Wikipedia's geolocations, but rather
multilingual names, object classifications, links to multiple Wikipedia
languages, and an ability to query connected graph data.  To my knowledge,
these are the main usecases by our data consumers.

On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 3:25 AM Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net>
wrote:

> Yuri Astrakhan wrote:
> OpenStreetMap takes and has always taken a whiter-than-white view of
> copyright. We aim to provide a dataset that anyone can use without fear of
> legal repercussions. It is not OSM's role to explore interesting grey areas
> in copyright, nor to push things to the extent that a court case is
> necessary.
>
> It has been settled for many years that we do not take co-ordinates from
> Wikipedia. They are mostly encumbered with Google copyright:
>
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Obtaining_geographic_coordinates#Google_tools
>
> This is not a new issue and has been mentioned before in connection with
> Wikidata referencing.
>
> Our data is principally hosted in the UK and the OSM Foundation is a
> company
> registered in England & Wales, so as a broad assumption UK law applies
> (which is fairly maximalist on copyright and follows the sweat-of-the-brow
> doctrine) as well as the EU database right, at least until this benighted
> country takes leave of its senses forever and leaves the EU. :(
>
> Follow-ups probably best to legal-talk at .
>
> Richard
>
>
>
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