Ciprian Talaba <cipriantal...@...> writes: > > > Hi all, > I know the discussion lately have been towards agreeing about an OSM > license, and probably this is not the best time to ask this question. > But I came across Corine Land Cover 2000 datasets and I want to make > sure that they can be use in OSM. The organization behind CLC 2000 is > European Environment Agency (EEA) and the website where the dataset is > available have some legal information like: > 1. on the page http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright > "Unless otherwise indicated, the information available from this > site is > within the public domain. Public domain information on the EEA web > pages may be downloaded free of charge, and reproduced provided the > source is acknowledged*. > .............................* Citing this website" > 2. on the page http://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/landuse/clc-download > from where you can download the datasets, in the tab "My details" where > is the following notice: > "The information available in this > application is under copyright of EEA and within the public domain. > Public domain information in this application may > > be used free of charge, provided the source is acknowledged. The > acknowledgment should read (c) EEA, Copenhagen, 2007" > So my opinion is that we can use data from CLC 2000 as long as we add > the source as a tag to each imported element. So you see any problems > in using this dataset? > Thanks, > Ciprian
On the other hand you can read also from: http://dataservice.eea.europa.eu/dataservice/metadetails.asp?id=950 Rights: EEA grants free access to all its data/applications provided that the user agrees: · to acknowledge the source as follows: Copyright EEA, Copenhagen, 2007 · to display a link to the EEA web site http://www.eea.europa.eu · not to use the data/applications for commercial purposes unless the Agency has expressly granted the right to do so _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
