On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Dale Puch wrote:
> And those are the basic assumptions I made as well. The problem is neither
> of us are lawyers and know what legal risks are involved with those
> assumption other than "stay away from anything not CLEARLY labeled PD"
[ ... ]
> Thus the US OSM
And those are the basic assumptions I made as well. The problem is neither
of us are lawyers and know what legal risks are involved with those
assumption other than "stay away from anything not CLEARLY labeled PD"
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Apollinaris Schoell wrote:
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> On Mon, Aug 16,
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Dale Puch wrote:
> A real problem is that the data itself is not properly tagged, or does not
> explicitly state what if any restrictions are placed on it. When it is not
> perfectly clear is when non-lawyers like us are putting themselves and OSM
> in possible t
A real problem is that the data itself is not properly tagged, or does not
explicitly state what if any restrictions are placed on it. When it is not
perfectly clear is when non-lawyers like us are putting themselves and OSM
in possible trouble.
A few examples:
The web site has copyright notices
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Al Haraka wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Apollinaris Schoell
> wrote:
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> > US government data is public domain. you can do whatever you like to do
> > with it. All big ones from Garmin, Google ... you name it use this data.
> > there is absolu
* Nakor [2010-08-12 10:23 -0400]:
> My only issue is the first paragraph of the Contributor Terms. I do
> not have **explicit** permission from the various US government
> entities and do not feel comfortable accepting those terms.
I'm not on legal-talk, but I was pointed at this post today:
h
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Apollinaris Schoell
wrote:
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> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Nakor wrote:
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>> Most of my contributions even though based on my GPS tracks are derived
>> work of some US governement data (USGS and NAIP imageries) and in a lesser
>> extent Ohio through OSIP.
Virtually all geospatial data obtained from government agencies in the US,
-local, state, or Federal is subject to either Federal or state public
records law, and therefore in the public domain. (Note however that some
states have stronger public records law than others). Of course, there are
excep
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Nakor wrote:
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> Most of my contributions even though based on my GPS tracks are derived
> work of some US governement data (USGS and NAIP imageries) and in a lesser
> extent Ohio through OSIP. I also imported some NHS, NPS and TIGER datasets.
> I truly do not wan
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 10:23 -0400, Nakor wrote:
>> My only issue is the first paragraph of the Contributor Terms. I do not
>> have **explicit** permission from the various US government entities and
>> do not feel comfortable accepting those t
On 8/12/2010 10:27 AM, Dave Hansen wrote:
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 10:23 -0400, Nakor wrote:
My only issue is the first paragraph of the Contributor Terms. I do not
have **explicit** permission from the various US government entities and
do not feel comfortable accepting those terms.
One of the m
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 10:23 -0400, Nakor wrote:
> My only issue is the first paragraph of the Contributor Terms. I do not
> have **explicit** permission from the various US government entities and
> do not feel comfortable accepting those terms.
>
> One of the mission of the US OSM could be to g
On 8/12/2010 7:15 AM, Richard Weait wrote:
News today from Mike Collinson, Chair of the OSMF License Working Group:
[...]
Hi,
Sometime ago Serge asked about what US OSM could do. Here is a proposal.
Most of my contributions even though based on my GPS tracks are derived
work of some US gov
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