Hi Dennis and all others.
I just checked at it looks like you are right. To bad the license-system does not allow (e.g.) the user to select between a "commercial use barred" or "commercial use allowed" license per data-element they enter. After all, on everything that is upload is some metadata attached, so it would be perfectly possible to encode this distiction inside the database. The But, besides this point, I still think it would be interesting to have some kind of formal license-agreement that a thirth-party can sign (even it just is a copy of the normal license of the openstreetmap-project adding "we provide out data to 'openstreetmap.be vzw' who have to right to enter them into the openstreetmap-server on out behalve. A lot of organisation like some kind of formal agreement they can look at, be verified by their "legal department" and be signed by the "schepen" or somebody else. (it's actually a great opportunity to invite the press and get some coverage for the openstreetmap-project). Perhaps somebody should contact an organisation like the FFII to get some advice on this; as they probably have more experience with this kind of legal issues. Cheerio! Kr. Bonne. > Kristoff, > I don't think a license that forbids commercial use of the data is compatible > with openstreetmap. Doing so would in my opinion be counter to the spirit. > Best regards, > Gyrbo > > ----- Oorspronkelijk bericht ----- > Van : Kristoff Bonne [mailto:kristoff.bo...@skypro.be] > Verzonden : dinsdag , september 22, 2009 08:37 AM > Aan : talk-be@openstreetmap.org > Onderwerp : [OSM-talk-be] licence-agreement for using 3th party received > information ??? > > Hi All, > > > After I managed to receive the official streetmap data from my > town-administration, I'm now quering the neighbouring towns for the same > thing. > > > Now, IMHO, what would help to persuade the administrations is a bit more > legal security on the use of this information. After all, this > information does also have a commercial value (when they are also > licenced to the commercial streetmap companies) so it might be usefull > to provide the same kind of thing. > > So, I don't know how the discussion on the "vzw" is going, but perhaps > one of the things that I would concider it to be for it, would be to > draw up a formal licence-agreement (perhaps you can ask legal support > from one of the other "open-source" related organisation on this) and to > be the party which who (say) a city council or a town's administration > can sign this agreement. > > > IMHO, the license would need to contain something like this: (this is > just a rough idea, I tried to balance the rights of both parties as much > as possible). > - the city-council is copyright-owner of the information and remains it > to be; including in furher copies of this information > - the city-council permit the information to be entered into the > openstreetmap-server, under the open-documentation licence > - no commercial use of this information is allowed (this would stop the > commercial companies from copying the streetmap-information from the > openstreetmap-server instead of asking (read: pay for) it from the > city-councils. > > > > It would then be usefull if the vzw would enter this kind of information > into the openstreetmap-server. The situation now is that -as I am the > person who received the informaton from my city-council and who uploaded > it- if any legal problems would arrize this would all trace-back to me! > > So, if information received from thirth-parties would be uploaded by an > account which is owned by the vzw; this would also safeguard the > volonteers who do the work from being legally draged into a court-case > if problems would arrize (e.g. with the commercial streetmap-companies). > > > > I think, if you have an organisation that works with volonteers, it's > always your responsability to make sure these volonteers are as much > "protected" as possible. (this is a bit in the same line as the message > I posted earlier on assurence for volonteers who take part in a > streetmapping-event). > > > Any comments or questions welcome! > > > Cheerio! > Kr. Bonne. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing list > Talk-be@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be > -- jabber/gtalk: krist...@krbonne.net
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