Well any imports would need to go by the imports@ list where hopefully the license would be reviewed if necessary.
From: Pekka Sarkola [mailto:pekka.sark...@gispo.fi] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 1:51 AM To: 'Licensing and other legal discussions.' Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Advice regarding terms from an agency Hi, I see here a path: first Ordnance Survey open their geodata, then National Land Survey of Finland and Dutch Kadastre followed. Next one is Iceland and other countries. All those mapping agencies give different license for their datasets. NLSFI has following: http://www.maanmittauslaitos.fi/en/NLS_open_data_licence_version1_20120501. As far I know, all those mapping agencies will allow OSMers to take their data sets and import to be part of OSM. IANAL and IMHO: local OSM mappers should decide if license is ok with OSM licenses, then add information to Contributor pages and then guideline local OSMers how to benefit local data sources. And this have to be done in very fast mode. There is other alternatives, but I prefer mine ;-) Other possibilities: . OSM Board/OSM Foundation Board/OSM Legal team will read and accept/deny those mapping agency contracts. They also guide how to use data and what will be include in Contributor's page. My opinion: we don't have that kind of legal resource to handle all situations. This is also very bureaucratic and slow way to do it. Local OSM mappers will use free datasets with or without permission: this is already happening in Finland. . We don't care about Contributor's datasets: at least in Finland OSM will then be marginalized. My opinion: if we can get baseline from somewhere we can focus to make updates to OSM and keep it as best local source of the (geo)data.
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