Re: [Maps-l] adding new name:XX tags semi-automatically -legal talk

> Hi Raul, > Raul Kern writes: >> made a script to add new name:XX values to Openstreetmap using >> wikipedia links from OSM and interlanguage links from Wikipedias. > > Personally I see no problem here. But OSM is sometimes more strict. > Wikipedia is CC-BY-SA which is no compatible source for OSM as it > requires the derived work be CC as well. With the license change to > ODbL this is not possible. > It all depends whether a bulk import of names from Wikipedia into OSM > is considered a derived work. > Please clarify with OSM on legal-talk before investing a lot of effort > that would later need to be reverted. > Hope it works because I'm a big fan of the name:xx tags and I would > love to have this for other languages as well. > Stephan