I wonder that nobody so far did spell out a warning about adding
information from websites. The simple key website=* is ok, but every
information like address, prizes and all the amenities is most of the
time not usable due to license problems.
cu fly
I'm pushing this offtopic and this discussion should probably go to
legal-talk (I've set reply-to there), but that paragraph does not match
my understanding of copyright law (IANAL, etc.).
My understanding is that a piece of information like an address or phone
number is a fact and is ineligible for copyright protection. If the fact
has been collected into a database, though, the database is in some
countries eligible for protection under a separate form of IP.
Thus if you go to a business' website to find their phone number and put
it in OSM, everything is okay, but if you go to a phone book to find it,
that's not okay and you could impact use of OSM in jurisdictions that
have database protections.
--Andrew
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