>> In case it might be useful to anyone - I worked with some UN Population
>> Division statistics recently, and in the process I geocoded all the urban
>> areas in the stats. I thought I could release this enhanced database to the
>> community, to give something back for all the great free resources that I
>> use in my daily life.
>>
>> The data is here, and I have smacked a CC license on the database.
>
> Many thanks for your generosity, however, in order to make the data
> really usable by anyone anywhere in the world, please consider
> releasing the data under a public domain waiver such as PDDL, or
> better yet, CC0, especially since your data may have copyrightable
> elements. CC0 is the most appropriate waiver for such data. CC
> licenses are not appropriate for data, and are discouraged by CC
> itself.
Hi Hugo & others,
don't want to play the bad guy here, but as mentioned above, and from our
experiences with the UNEP GEO Data Portal, re-distribution is somewhat touchy.
As I am not an a lawyer and don't know too much about licensing, here some
parts from UN's WUP website, which indicate some restrictions in
re-distribution ( http://esa.un.org/unup/index.asp?panel=8 ).
PROHIBITED USES OF COPYRIGHTED MATERIALS
Users may not:
1. Remove or alter the authors' names or the Publisher's copyright notices or
other means of identification or disclaimers as they appear in the Copyrighted
Materials;
2. Systematically make print or electronic copies of multiple extracts of the
Copyrighted Materials for any purpose;
3. Mount or distribute any part of the Copyrighted Materials on any electronic
network, including without limitation the Internet and the World Wide Web.
USES REQUIRING WRITTEN PERMISSION
The United Nations' explicit written permission must be obtained in order to:
1. Use all or any part of the Copyrighted Materials for any Commercial Use;
2. Systematically distribute the whole or any part of the Copyrighted Materials
to anyone;
3. Publish, distribute or make available the Copyrighted Materials, works based
on the Copyrighted Materials or works that combine them with any other material;
4. Alter, abridge, adapt or modify the Copyrighted Materials, except to the
extent necessary to make them perceptible on a computer screen.
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