> From: Pekka Sarkola [mailto:pekka.sark...@gispo.fi] > Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 9:03 AM > To: OSM - talk-fi; legal-talk@openstreetmap.org > Subject: [OSM-legal-talk] MoU between OSM and NLSF > > Dear Friends, > > I have prepared with National Land Survey of Finland Memorandum of > Understanding (MoU) about usage of their datasets by OpenStreetMap > activists. Hare is current draft text for everybody to comment: > > ---- > Memorandum of Understanding > > This Memorandum of Understanding (hereinafter "MoU") is between the > National Land Survey of Finland (hereinafter NLSF) and OpenStreetMap > contributors (hereinafter OSM).
Who would this agreement be between? It can't be between OSM contributors. It could be between NLSF and *some* OSM contributors who individually agree to it but it can't be for all OSM contributors. It couldn't impose any requirements on users of NLSF or NLSF-derived data in OSM, including OSM contributors. A MOU is essentially a contract between two parties, but I don't see who the second party is in this case. A contract or MOU makes sense in some cases, like if you are purchasing commercial imagery, but there's two clear parties then. I suppose you could have a data provider who didn't want to make their data directly publically available but was willing to let people contribute it to OSM, but such an import might run into problems following the guidelines. > OSM are preparing guidelines for all OpenStreetMap data collectors on > how to include necessary tag-information for the OpenStreetMap data > features. I'm not saying this isn't important - you'd likely to do this as part of the import process - but does it belong in a MOU? _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
