Christian,

On 20.04.2013 20:53, Christian Wegerhoff wrote:
The data has finally been released officially by the Bundesregierung
(Federal Government) with the "GeoNutzV, Verordnung zur Festlegung der
Nutzungsbestimmungen für die Bereitstellung von Geodaten des Bundes"
(http://www.geodatenzentrum.de/docpdf/geonutzv.pdf).

The problem should be solved.

No. The issue has been discussed a lot in the German Forums and on the talk-de list; the document you quote is not a sufficient license for importing the data.

If I see this right, Paul Norman has had a few comments for you on this list on the 9th of November last year, to which you never replied; one of them was the question whether or not you have discussed this on talk-de. If you had discussed this on talk-de you would probably have been told the following:

The document you quote contains an attribution requirement that cannot be met by OpenStreetMap. In particular, it reads:

"Users of the data have to make sure that all attribution and other legal remarks that come with the data have to be visibly linked"

The German community has attempted to clarify that requirement in direct contact with the government and it currently isn't compatible - the government essentialy wants their attribution under every product that uses their data, and this is something that we cannot give them. The best we can give them is naming them on our copyright page but they're not currently happy with that.

Now I am not sure if you have received any *explicit* permission to import that data that might override the GeoNutzV document, but the GeoNutzV in itself is not sufficient legal basis for importing that data into OSM.

Bye
Frederik

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