Am 25.08.2015 um 20:14 schrieb Tom Lee:
The main point is however that while we can pontificate as much as we
want that something might be legal in country X, Y or Z, it doesn't
really matter: for OSM to be useful in a country (and our goal is to be
useful in as many countries as possible,
On 8/25/2015 3:55 AM, Simon Poole wrote:
- in dire circumstances and with a very large effort, as Paul has
pointed out, three and a half years ago I managed to get hold of the
responsible person with GADM and get explicit permission for a handful
of datasets that had been imported in violation o
If it would be useful, I'd be happy to try to get in touch with the GADM
people. Sending emails like that is a substantial part of my workday :-) I
would just need clarity around what, specifically, we'd like to ask for
this time.
Simone, the factual nature of geodata and its effect on copyright i
Simone, you are flogging a really dead horse (which has been discussed
many many many times before).
- the licence of the GADM dataset is incompatible with OSM
- in dire circumstances and with a very large effort, as Paul has
pointed out, three and a half years ago I managed to get hold of the
re
Thanks for your answer, Paul.
Some further comments below.
> GADM is still under a non-commercial license. I don't know who said they
> were going to investigate, so you'd have to ask them, but I doubt
> anything came of it. Independently of that, we got permission for some
> datasets from GADM af
