Well I got a reply saying that the county data actually does come from another agency and that I should contact them. At this point I'm not going to have time to send another email and wait for a response so I will just use TIGER data. So nevermind.
Toby On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 5:21 AM, Josh Doe <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Toby Murray <[email protected]> wrote: >> [...] The best source I found was the Washington >> State Department of Ecology. Their copyright page seemed clear at >> first but then pnorman on IRC muddied the waters and suggested I get >> some input from a wider audience. The page in question is here: >> http://www.ecy.wa.gov/copyright.html >> >> Seems like a basic attribution requirement. But of course that gets >> complicated with derived works and whatnot. I guess I'll send someone >> at the department a quick email too and see what they say. [...] > > Definitely ask them for clarification, but AFAIK it's straightforward: > "Unless specifically identified as the property of another party, all > text, data, [...] found on Ecology's Web sites, including [...] the > linked database and map servers, are the copyrighted property of the > Washington State Department of Ecology" > - They own the copyright, good. > > "Commercial use and commercial publication of the Material are > specifically prohibited, except as specified below." > - Wait for it > > "Users may use data from Ecology's Web sites provided the Washington > State Department of Ecology is credited as the data provider and a > link is provided to the Ecology data source Web page." > - The key here is that they don't specify where the attribution must > occur. This is no different than CC-BY-SA or ODbL, where attribution > is acceptably placed in other places than on the map, such as in our > Contributors wiki page [0]. They also don't have any requirements > which transfer to any users of the data which we use from them. (e.g. > forbidding sublicensing, or specifying how we sublicense). > > Then again, I would be surprised if TIGER is very much different from > this data, since TIGER generally uses data provided by states and > localities (at least true in the case of Virginia roads). > > -Josh > > [0]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
