But you should know that there are some copyright international agreements between many countries. Russian laws can't be used in England, and russian military secrets can't be protected by English laws. But it doesn't concern with copyright laws. Roscartographia is a copyright holder for soviet topo maps, so its rights may be protected by English laws.
> I think you should take this to the legal list. > As far as I know, the copyright laws of england count for osm, not those > of > russia. > mike > > 2010/6/24 Alexandr Zeinalov <shu...@sbin.ru> > >> >> > We purchased them from this site : >> > http://mapstor.com/ >> >> AFAIK this is not legal seller of maps, and poehali.org too. They both >> hosted outside Russia. So this maps can't be reliable identified as >> public >> domain maps. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk