2012/11/21 Maurizio Daniele <maurizio.dani...@gmail.com>: > Recently the Piedmont region (northwest of Italy) published a lot of data > [1] under CC license, most of them are CC-BY 2.5, a few CC0, some others > with different licenses we cannot use. > So it did the city of Torino [2] > > A lot of these datas are interesting (buildings, address, streets names, > rivers, landuses and so on...) and available through WMS server. > > Now the question is: can we (me and other local people) import them directly > or we need some other written authorization from publisher (other than the > CC-BY license, I mean).
For cc0 the case should be clear, and also cc-by would AFAIK comply with our current terms (as long as you cite them correctly, rumours go that a mention in the wiki would be sufficient). A problem might be if the active contributors decided in the future to move to an even more open license (e.g. cc0) in which case the cc-by data would not comply any more to the license and would have to be removed (probably together with what has been built upon). The more data with cc-by we import, the less free we are to decide to go PD / cc0. > Please consider that in general we don't want to make a bulk import (not all > data are up to date or good-quality), but redrawing from WMS server (through > Josm aerial image plugin) and checking with survey and aerial image. So I wouldn't consider this an automated import, maybe as long as you survey everything nor even an import at all (you are not copying but retracing by hand = there is also a kind of verification / judgement). cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
