[OSM-legal-talk] Reliefweb as data source for OSM?

2014-06-29 Thread Lukas Sommer
Hello. Reliefweb is a service of the United Nations, that contains maps, mostly concerning regions where have been desaster and where humanitairian aid is necessary. Their permission can be found here: http://reliefweb.int/map_permission Is it possible to use this for OSM? Specially 2 points ar

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Reliefweb as data source for OSM?

2014-06-29 Thread Paul Norman
On 2014-06-29 1:33 AM, Lukas Sommer wrote: Hello. Reliefweb is a service of the United Nations, that contains maps, mostly concerning regions where have been desaster and where humanitairian aid is necessary. Their permission can be found here: http://reliefweb.int/map_permission Is it pos

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Reliefweb as data source for OSM?

2014-06-29 Thread Lukas Sommer
I’m not aware of content that has been imported, but I found http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Uganda/Data_Sources#Relief_Web and wasn’t sure about if this is possible or not. So we can resume that it is not allowed to upload content (that is based on ReliefWeb) to the OSM database?

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Reliefweb as data source for OSM?

2014-06-29 Thread Paul Norman
On 2014-06-29 3:12 AM, Paul Norman wrote: Is this really acceptable for OSM? If by use you mean upload content to the API based on it, then yes. Whoops - s/yes/no/ Writing messages late at night. ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstre

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Reliefweb as data source for OSM?

2014-06-29 Thread Paul Norman
On 2014-06-29 3:21 AM, Lukas Sommer wrote: I’m not aware of content that has been imported, but I found http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Uganda/Data_Sources#Relief_Web and wasn’t sure about if this is possible or not. So we can resume that it is not allowed to upload content (th

[OSM-legal-talk] Release as PD of my own contributions

2014-06-29 Thread Lukas Sommer
Hello again. Another question: I want to make sure that my contributions don’t make any problems, also if in the future ther would beanother license switch (like in the case of the switch from CC to ODBL). As maybe in some years I don’t contribute anymore and have another email address, I would li

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Release as PD of my own contributions

2014-06-29 Thread Stephan Knauss
Lukas Sommer writes: Another question: I want to make sure that my contributions don’t make any problems, also if in the future ther would beanother license switch (like in the case of the switch from CC to ODBL). As you have agreed to the Contributor Terms (remember, this was the main topic