On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Kirill Bestoujev <bestou...@gmail.com>wrote:
> No, they are not out of copyright. All the rights of USSR were > transfered to Russian Federation. Neither USSR, nor Russian Federation > ever transferred those maps to public domain or in any other way > allowed free use of them. Most of that maps were stolen from exUSSR > military bases in republics, which separated from USSR in 90-s. > > In Russia disclosing of such maps (not 100k, they were openly > publiched, but 50k) is still a crime - treason. There was such a case > a month ago. > > SO: old USSR military maps are not allowed to be used in OSM. > Oh really? I read that they were sold. We had purchased them and were using them, also for osm. The consensus was that they are public domain. lets straighten this out. http://www.mail-archive.com/talk@openstreetmap.org/msg27951.html mike
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