[OSM-talk] The benefits of cross-linking OSM and Wikidata

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Mar 5, 2020, 15:39 by rory at technomancy.org:

> On 05/03/2020 15:25, Sören Reinecke via talk wrote:
>
>> couldn't we do a vote about that? Would it be possible for the OSMF to
>> maintain and coordinate such a voting.
>>
>
> Yes, we _could_.
>
> It would require a 2/3 majority of “active [OSM] contributors”, which is (intentionally) a large number (about 250,000 at the time of writing). I'm sorry, but a licence change to remove the share alike part of the OSM licence has microscopic chance of passing... You'll just have to accept it.
>
> https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Contributor_Terms
>
And I am pretty sure that migrating Wikidata to ODBL is even less likely.

Sadly, you run into a conflict between strategies of this projects.

To make it even more irritating - imports from Wikidata into OSM are also
impossible in general due to licensing issues.

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