On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 2:48 AM, 80n <80n...@gmail.com> wrote: > Andrew, that's great that you've had a response from AGIMO.
Yes it is, I made sure to thank them for this. > Would it be possible for you to share a copy of their response with this > group? I've made a similar request to Grant about his "explicit, express > permission" and it seems reasonable to ask you the same question. > > Sadly, we really need first hand documentary evidence for any claim, either > way, to have any value. Below I quote the response from the data.gov.au team which I received: >OpenStreetMap (OSM) are utilising datasets made available from data.gov.au >under CC-BY 2.5 or CC-BY 3.0 only. They are required to attribute the authors >correctly, which they now are through their Wiki. This provides an appropriate >chain of attribution, in accordance with Creative Commons licensing, for any >end user of OSM products. > >In the example you provided, you as end user would be obliged to attribute >OSM when you used the extracted data. They, in turn, are obliged to attribute >the original government dataset. We do not consider that what we are providing >is “special permission” – we have only clarified our position on appropriate >attribution. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au