Hi Serge, On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Serge Wroclawski <[email protected]> wrote: > Randal, > > Thanks for making this page and engaging in the import process. > > Regarding the license, in the United States, only the Federal government can > place something in the Public Domain (it's a very specific term that has > legal meaning), so if their intent is to make the data as public as > possible, then I suggest that they place the data under a CC0 license (or > some other very permissive license), or if they can't do that, there's a > process by which they can donate the data to OSM. We need a document > showing that the license is OSM compatible, and that's tricky. Even if the > license were the same as OSM is now (ODbL), then there are issues because > OSM itself may change licenses in the future (in fact, it's nearly > guaranteed to do so at some point, if only to upgrade to a new ODbL).
Assuming they own the copyright on the data, they are allowed to give up those rights and release the data into the public domain. http://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/public-domain/welcome/ This is not true in other places outside the US. > > In addition, as has already been discussed by others- we need to see the > actual data in its original form to evaluate it- and of course we'd like > ideally, to have the conversion script used to convert the data from its > upstream format (presumably Shapefile) to the OSM form. In absence of that, > though, the original data and the .osm files. I agree, Randal, when you are ready post some osm files for review. No need to upload it to do the review. Thanks Jason _______________________________________________ Imports-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports-us
