After brief discussion on the talk-au list, advice is requested from the legal-talk list.
The PSMA Admin Boundaries Data is released by the Australian Government at https://data.gov.au/dataset/psma-administrative-boundaries It is provided under CC-BY-4.0 licence with a condition relating to privacy principles. OSM has received explicit permission to use some Australian Government Data. See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution/data.gov.au_explicit_permission Some items published at data.gov.au under CC-BY 4.0 have already been listed on the Contributors page of the wiki but there is concern that the above-mentioned explicit permission may be insufficient for the data. The wiki contributors page includes the statement "Incorporates or developed using Administrative Boundaries ©PSMA Australia Limited licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0)." but it is not sourced or referenced so that its significance is unclear. The Boundaries Data is also provided with the condition that "Users must only use the data in ways that are consistent with the Australian Privacy Principles issued under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)." It seems to me that OSM does not collect or use any personal information about identifiable individuals that would cause a problem but someone else may have a different view. Can we please have advice on whether the previously received explicit permission is adequate to permit use of the PSMA Admin Boundaries Data and whether there is any concern in relation to the Australian Privacy Principles. _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk