i'm personally wary of "no objection"; it's not really an explicit grant and there is no certainty about whether an objection might arise later. i would say that probably there were no lawyers involved in phrasing that statement.
richard On 10/9/20 2:05 PM, lobstereat...@airmail.cc wrote: > Ok, thank you for the guidance. I will forward to legal-talk, and I > apologize if this wasn't the correct mailing list. > > On Fri, 2020-10-09 at 15:44 +0200, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: >> AFAIK "makes no claim as to the usefulness, accuracy or completeness" >> is not a problem, whoever is doing imports must do this part anyway. >> >> But what is the license of the data? >> Maybe "Syracuse-Onondaga County Planning Agency has no objections" >> is sufficient (I am not a lawyer) - but only if that agency holds >> full rights to the dataset >> >> As usual, legal-talk has greater chance to get response with someone >> with greater >> legal knowledge. >> >> Oct 9, 2020, 14:38 by lobstereat...@airmail.cc: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I have been in contact with the Syracuse-Onondaga County Planning >>> Agency (SOCPA), an Onondaga County NY agency, about the licensing >>> of a >>> building footprint layer they have. My intention was to import this >>> layer after further review by the OSM community and myself. After >>> contacting the agency head about a possible waiver for OSM use ( >>> along >>> the lines of >>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Getting_permission#Letter_Template_1 >>> ), I received this response: >>> >>> The Syracuse-Onondaga County Planning Agency has no objections to >>> geodata derived in part from the "Onondaga County Building >>> Footprints" >>> layer being incorporated into the OpenStreetMap project geodata >>> database and displayed publicly on the map. By using the data, >>> however, the OpenStreetMap project agrees that Onondaga County >>> makes no >>> claim as to the usefulness, accuracy or completeness of the >>> county's >>> building footprint file, and the county will not be held >>> responsible >>> for any omissions or inaccuracies. This data is provided as is and >>> there is no guarantee that it is suitable for any particular >>> purpose. >>> Your use of the data is at your own risk. >>> >>> Is this licensing favorable for use by the OSM community? >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Talk-us mailing list >>> Talk-us@openstreetmap.org >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > -- rwe...@averillpark.net Averill Park Networking - GIS & IT Consulting OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux Java - Web Applications - Search _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
