Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Houston, TX, open data policy license compliance

2019-08-13 Thread Kathleen Lu via legal-talk
Ah, apologies, Jan, I was too hasty in my assessment. If you click on the CC-BY link, you will see that only the "School District" dataset is CC-BY. If you do inquire, I would first ask if the dataset you are interested in is in the public domain, as that is possible under US law, and would be

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Houston, TX, open data policy license compliance

2019-08-13 Thread Kathleen Lu via legal-talk
Hi Jan, Specifically, here's is an example of the Geographic Boundaries page that indicates a CC-BY license: http://data.houstontx.gov/group/geographic-boundaries On the left side, at the bottom of the list of information. I would surmise that this applies to all the geographic boundary datasets,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Houston, TX, open data policy license compliance

2019-08-13 Thread Simon Poole
While the policy is undoutably good, it does not follow that all data published actually conforms to it (for example third party rights in existing data could be an issue). In any case on data.houstontx.gov the licence is specified for 7 datasets, so I assume the intent is to do that for all over