Re: [OSM-legal-talk] US local government data: negotiating license?

2008-10-18 Thread David Carmean
Thanks for the feedback; I was away on a trip. I think I'll wait to see what falls out of the current license discussions before taking action on this. ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] US local government data: negotiating license?

2008-10-06 Thread Mike Collinson
David, Unless I missed out, I don't think you got any replies to your message below? Let me stick my neck out and give a few hints on how to proceed. I am sure it could be improved and others might like to comment on suitability. A boilerplate has been suggested before and it would be good

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] US local government data: negotiating license?

2008-10-06 Thread Gervase Markham
Mike Collinson wrote: A good general method is to flip things around, explain what you are going to do with the data and ask them to contact you by, say, the end of the month if the use does NOT meet their terms of use. I think that is both politically and legally extremely unwise. You can't

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] US local government data: negotiating license?

2008-10-06 Thread Mike Collinson
At 06:06 PM 6/10/2008, Gervase Markham wrote: Mike Collinson wrote: A good general method is to flip things around, explain what you are going to do with the data and ask them to contact you by, say, the end of the month if the use does NOT meet their terms of use. I think that is both

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] US local government data: negotiating license?

2008-10-06 Thread Simon Ward
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:57:08PM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote: I had the same thoughts when reading the text, but later it says that the data can be used by anyone for any purpose as long as they comply with attribution and sharing requirements, and with that proviso I think it is ok (and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] US local government data: negotiating license?

2008-10-06 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Simon Ward wrote: OSM might be considered non‐commercial OSM *is not* a commercial enterprise. Not might be considered. but what about companies who use OSM? A licence to use data in a non‐commercial project is not necessarily one that allows distribution to others (commercial or not).