Good points, Stefan. These requirements need to be taken seriously by all involved for fear of disuading future data providers.
On the other hand, I dont' think even UNSD can claim copyright on the location of urban megacentres. There's enough 'prior art' out there to limit their case. The projections data? Yeah, I can see their right to those. --- On Wed, 3/2/10, Stefan Schwarzer <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Stefan Schwarzer <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Geowanking] urban areas database > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, 3 February, 2010, 22:21 > 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. > -----Inline Attachment Follows----- > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
