On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > Again, I could certainly be wrong, but my understanding of the rules is > that an Apache project can’t publish a file of coordinates that isn’t an > exact copy of the original .svg file if the file is CC-BY-SA. > > My understanding is that any modifications cannot be placed under AL (or > into the public domain as some modifiers have claimed) and must be under > CC-BY-SA, and that restriction makes CC-BY-SA incompatible with the Apache > License. > > In digging into this, I think I’ve discovered that the blank map is > derived from [1]. > > It looks like your modifications were done to allow mouse targeting of the > individual states. I noticed on [1] there is a clickable version. I > haven’t looked to see if it has more easy-to-use data. Anyway, I think we > can transform the unmodified data at runtime if you do need to break it up > into pieces, but we can’t break it up through some other tool and store it > in a file. >
This is the user[1] who uploaded the original version [2] His email id is listed in his bio page; perhaps we can contact him to re-license it to us? Thanks, Om [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wapcaplet [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_USA_with_state_names.svg > > What a pain... > -Alex > > [1] > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_USA_with_state_names.svg#fil > e > > > On 9/8/15, 1:21 PM, "omup...@gmail.com on behalf of OmPrakash Muppirala" > <omup...@gmail.com on behalf of bigosma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >There is also this demo app where we can get the co-ordinates from: > > > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robflaherty/us-map-raphael/master/us-map > >-svg.js > > > >On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 1:07 PM, OmPrakash Muppirala <bigosma...@gmail.com > > > >wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> > >>> On 9/8/15, 11:58 AM, "omup...@gmail.com on behalf of OmPrakash > >>>Muppirala" > >>> <omup...@gmail.com on behalf of bigosma...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> >Sorry, I forgot to respond to your question. The co-ordinates for > >>>the US > >>> >States map comes from: > >>> >https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blank_US_Map.svg > >>> > > >>> >which is under a dual license of Creative Commons - Attribution Share > >>> >Alike > >>> >and GNU FDL. > >>> > >>> Hmm. I could be wrong, but to use such an SVG file, I think we have to > >>> use it as-is. I don’t think we can port the data to AS or modify the > >>>file > >>> in any way. Interestingly, I can use the PNG files from wikimedia to > >>> solve my problem for FlexJSStore because it will be used unmodified. > >>> > >>> How did you port the data? Did you write another app to do the port? I > >> > >> think you just have to include that logic in the example so it can work > >>> from the downloaded .svg file. > >>> > >>> > >> There is an existing app that does that: > >> http://toki-woki.net/p/SVG2RaphaelJS/ > >> I had to modify the output a bit to suit the app requirements. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Om > >> > >> > >>> Then we need to fix up LICENSE and maybe NOTICE. > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >>> -Alex > >>> > >>> > >> > >
