Ok, thank you for the guidance. I will forward to legal-talk, and I apologize if this wasn't the correct mailing list.
On Fri, 2020-10-09 at 15:44 +0200, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: > AFAIK "makes no claim as to the usefulness, accuracy or completeness" > is not a problem, whoever is doing imports must do this part anyway. > > But what is the license of the data? > Maybe "Syracuse-Onondaga County Planning Agency has no objections" > is sufficient (I am not a lawyer) - but only if that agency holds > full rights to the dataset > > As usual, legal-talk has greater chance to get response with someone > with greater > legal knowledge. > > Oct 9, 2020, 14:38 by lobstereat...@airmail.cc: > > Hello, > > > > I have been in contact with the Syracuse-Onondaga County Planning > > Agency (SOCPA), an Onondaga County NY agency, about the licensing > > of a > > building footprint layer they have. My intention was to import this > > layer after further review by the OSM community and myself. After > > contacting the agency head about a possible waiver for OSM use ( > > along > > the lines of > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Getting_permission#Letter_Template_1 > > ), I received this response: > > > > The Syracuse-Onondaga County Planning Agency has no objections to > > geodata derived in part from the "Onondaga County Building > > Footprints" > > layer being incorporated into the OpenStreetMap project geodata > > database and displayed publicly on the map. By using the data, > > however, the OpenStreetMap project agrees that Onondaga County > > makes no > > claim as to the usefulness, accuracy or completeness of the > > county's > > building footprint file, and the county will not be held > > responsible > > for any omissions or inaccuracies. This data is provided as is and > > there is no guarantee that it is suitable for any particular > > purpose. > > Your use of the data is at your own risk. > > > > Is this licensing favorable for use by the OSM community? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-us mailing list > > talk...@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > _______________________________________________ Imports-us mailing list Imports-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us
