I&#x27;m not sure if OSM really needs to be as cautious as they are. I don&#x27;t see how you could argue that &quot;Main St begins at X1, Y1&quot; and &quot;Main St end at X2,Y2&quot; is a single copyrightable work instead of 2 separate non-copyrightable facts. The <i>sentence</i> or <i>package</i> which contains these two separate data points may be a unique work that qualifies for copyright protection, but the raw data points aren&#x27;t once you separate them out.<p>Open-source projects have a history of being hyper-sensitive to these concerns so that they never have to waste time with lawyers lobbing IP claims. A certain distribution derived from the sources released by a prominent North American enterprise Linux vendor comes to mind, as does WINE&#x27;s refusal to accept any code from anyone who has any relationship with or connection to Microsoft whatsoever.