Dear Friends, I have prepared with National Land Survey of Finland Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) about usage of their datasets by OpenStreetMap activists. Hare is current draft text for everybody to comment:
---- Memorandum of Understanding This Memorandum of Understanding (hereinafter MoU) is between the National Land Survey of Finland (hereinafter NLSF) and OpenStreetMap contributors (hereinafter OSM). Background NLSF started to use a new Open Data License for their topographic information datasets (hereinafter Data) on 1st of May 2012. NLSFs Open Data License grants a worldwide, free of charge and irrevocable parallel right of use to open data. This MoU clarifies how Data can be used when OSM are collecting data to be part of OpenStreetMap database. Usage of NLSFs data NLSF data can be used at least two (2) ways by OSM: - As reference data: NLSF Data can be used as reference data. For example NLSFs raster maps or aerial photographs can used as source data when OSM databases are digitized, corrected, validated or in any other way. - As import source: NLSF Data can be imported to be an integral part of OpenStreetMap database. Attribution OSM will add NLSFs contribution to OpenStreetMap wiki pages as follows: Finland National Land Survey of Finland Contains data from National Land Survey of Finland Topographic Database and other sources, data extractions started on 05/2012. More specific data sources and data extraction dates are documented as part of data and in OSM wiki pages OSM are preparing guidelines for all OpenStreetMap data collectors on how to include necessary tag-information for the OpenStreetMap data features. ---- Reasons to make this kind of MoU: - Common understanding among OSMers what can and what cannot do with NLSF datasets - Clarify OSMers goals for NLSF when using their datasets Some people may say that we don't even need this kind of MoU. IMHO: maybe it's better to have something than nothing. However, all comments are welcome! Rgs, Pekka -- Pekka Sarkola Gispo Oy pekka.sark...@gispo.fi - GSM +358 40 725 2042 www.gispo.fi www.paikkatieto.com _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk