If the data are to be released under the terms and provisions of Maryland public records law, you should probably cite the section of the code that applies to the data. States often have conditions that specify which records are in the public domain (e.g. real estate transactions) and which are not (e.g. personnel records).
-- SEJ -- twitter: @geomantic -- skype: sejohnson8 There are two types of people in the world. Those that can extrapolate from incomplete data. On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Josh Doe <j...@joshdoe.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Paul Norman <penor...@mac.com> wrote: > >> Neither of those is public domain. I know for individuals there can be >> issues releasing data into the public domain, but if a government’s lawyers >> feel their data is public domain, I generally just take them at their word. >> >> If the data is public domain then a simple statement that the data is >> public domain should be enough. With PD you’re not actually licensing the >> data, you’re stating that it’s not covered by copyright and there aren’t >> any exclusive rights that need licensing. >> > > Sadly it's not that simple. Public domain can only be works of the US > federal government (for use within the US specifically), or where copyright > has expired, and I'm sure a few other edge cases. Whether you like it or > not, in the US, unless you're an employee of the US federal government, you > can't release works into the public domain. That's what CC0 is for. Read > more here: > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html#PublicDomainSoftware > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_software > > -Josh > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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