Tracking back a bit further, there's this thread from the local user group getting permission to use the data in 2012. ( https://groups.google.com/g/osm-seattle/c/XhQwyBlkqeI?hl=en) Should I understand that this permission should be considered expired? Not covering the data I wish to use? Some other thing?
Seeking some clarity so that, presuming new communication needs to happen, that it's granted in a more durable way. I will try to follow up with the other folks from this rather old thread. Matt On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 7:40 AM Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Matthew Whilden <[email protected]> writes: > > > Hello everyone! > > > > Thanks for taking the time. I totally agree that the license is ... > > interesting. My interest in the dataset arose because it is regularly > > mentioned by local mapping folks as a good source we can pull from. This > > seems to be largely because of written permission received several years > > ago and mentioned in under King County Washington here: > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors#United_States > > > > I am not a license person so will happily call the license posted as not > > compatible with ODbL etc. But then the question becomes... Does the > earlier > > permission we've logged control the issue? My, maybe naive, impression > was > > yes. > > > > Sorry if any of this is covered elsewhere. I've tried to do my homework > but > > there's a lot to chew off all at once. > > Don't worry -- this is all very difficult. > > That permission appears to say that having the attribution on the > Contributors page sufficees for their attribution requirement. That's > great, but it doesn't talk about the rest of the terms. I am guessing > that they have changed their terms from essentially cc-by to > lots-of-stuff-including-indemnification between 2012 and 2022. > > I would suggest that you figure out if anyone local has a relationship > with the county, and have that person talk to them about their license. > That's a tricky conversation, so it should be someone who is good at > difficult conversations! >
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