If the data is licensed under ODBL, I do not see any objection to incorporating it into OSM. However, my legal expertise is certainly limited any you may want to consider consulting the legal-talk mailing-list for more qualified statements. It will certainly be interested to them to see a large multilateral organisation like FAO incorporating ODBL.
I would suggest you include a source-tag, so one has an idea where the data is coming from. Additionally, it is considered good practice to document any import, either in a dedicated wiki-page or on the Burundian wiki page. Marc On 03.08.2011, at 23:56, Arie Scheffer wrote: > Hello Marc and others, > > After you contacted me I took another look at the data I used. Firstly, I'm > certain I downloaded the zip-file containing Burindian border data from FAO > GeoNetwork where It was credited to Africover, but today I couldn't find it > there. Secondly, the file concerned is called bu-adm.zip containing 7 files: > bu-adm.dbf, bu-adm.prj, bu-adm.sbn, bu-adm.sbx, bu-adm.shp, bu-adm.shp.xml, > bu-adm.shx. I couldn't find any declaration of ownership in the files but in > Bu-adm.shp.xml I found this license text: > > >## ODC Database Contents License > > The Licensor and You agree as follows: > > ### 1.0 Definitions of Capitalised Words > > The definitions of the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0 are incorporated > by reference into the Database Contents License. > > ### 2.0 Rights granted and Conditions of Use > > 2.1 Rights granted. The Licensor grants to You a worldwide, > royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable copyright license to > do any act that is restricted by copyright over anything within the > Contents, whether in the original medium or any other. These rights > explicitly include commercial use, and do not exclude any field of > endeavour. These rights include, without limitation, the right to > sublicense the work. > > 2.2 Conditions of Use. You must comply with the ODbL. > > 2.3 Relationship to Databases and ODbL. This license does not cover any > Database Rights, Database copyright, or contract over the Contents as > part of the Database. Please see the ODbL covering the Database for more > details about Your rights and obligations. > > 2.4 Non-assertion of copyright over facts. The Licensor takes the > position that factual information is not covered by copyright. The DbCL > grants you permission for any information having copyright contained in > the Contents. > > ... (warranties etc.) > This license is fullly compliant with OSM's license. Any claims made by > Africover have no bearing on this data file. Further, I am unable to > attribute the data correctly. I should therefore not use a source: key. > Would you agree? > > Arie > > > Op 3-8-2011 9:17, Marc Zoss schreef: >> >> Hi everybody >> >> I was contacted by Arie who recently imported some Burundian border since I >> did quite some work on the Tanzanian coverage. >> >> When I recently added some Tanzanian borders I stumbled across FAO's >> Africover dataset, but due to license restrictions I decided not to use it >> (and instead went for maplibary.org which is PD). Africover's license is not >> compatible with CCbySA / ODBL and so I tried to get Africovers permission >> specifically and wrote them. I got a negative reply from Africover's Craig >> van Hagen on 28.10.2010 (see quote below). So I am bit surprised reading >> that the same Craig van Hagen seems to have granted OSM the permission to >> use Africover data. >> >> Has anyone some more information and is it documented somewhere? >> >> Best regards >> >> Marc (aka FischersFritz) >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Dear Sir / Madam, >> >> Craig von Hagen sent you the following query from the Africover website: >> >> Subject: Data request >> >> This data cannot be uploaded to OSM as it belong to the country specified >> >> Thanks, >> >> Kind Regards >> FAO - Africover >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Imports mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports > _______________________________________________ > Imports mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
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