The minute you use the word "MUST", it's not a request, it's a demand. If the data was public domain, there would be no restrictions.
Also, no where on the page does it use the word "Public domain", nor in any of the data I downloaded, does it have a license listed. Therefore it falls back to plain old copyright. - Serge On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 7:06 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2014-10-31 11:54 GMT+01:00 Serge Wroclawski <[email protected]>: >> >> So let me explain why it's contradictory. Public domain is a term of >> art. If something is public domain, you can place *no* restrictions on >> it. You can't say that there's a requirement for attribution. You can >> even take a public domain work and claim copyright ownership over it. > > > > Serge, by looking at their reply I'm not sure it contains any restrictions: > >> "You may download public domain data from the MarinMap GIS data download >> site. >> >> You do not need a license to use public domain data. >> >> You may acknowledge “MarinMap” as the original source, but you MUST state >> that MarinMap has no responsibility or warranty regarding data after they >> have entered the public domain. >> >> You may use the legalese from the disclaimer web page to facilitate >> writing a disclaimer. >> >> URL of the disclaimer page: >> http://www.marinmap.org/dnn/Pages/LegalNoticeDisclaimer.aspx"; > > > > They say you might (even though you don't have to) attribute them, but if > you attribute you must make clear that there is no implied warranty. > > On the linked page they also state: "Most map data, especially parcels, are > not survey precise." > this is a hint that the quality might not be as good as what we typically > have in OSM (at least in areas which haven't suffered from bad imports) > > cheers, > Martin _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
