Given that this is a US county agency, I take it they view the data as public domain. That's a pretty common view for government entities in the US.
On Fri, Oct 9, 2020, 1:14 PM Mateusz Konieczny <matkoni...@tutanota.com> wrote: > But license is still needed, right? > > Or is it OK to interpret "Agency has no objections" > as "sounds like CC0" (I would not do this but maybe...)? > > > Oct 9, 2020, 20:40 by legal-talk@openstreetmap.org: > > Yes, it's fine. That is simply a disclaimer, not a limitation on use. > > On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 11:14 AM <lobstereat...@airmail.cc> wrote: > > Hello, > > I have been in contact with the Syracuse-Onondaga County Planning > Agency (SOCPA), an Onondaga County NY agency, about the licensing of a > building footprint layer they have. My intention was to import this > layer after further review by the OSM community and myself. After > contacting the agency head about a possible waiver for OSM use ( along > the lines of > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Getting_permission#Letter_Template_1 > ), I received this response: > > The Syracuse-Onondaga County Planning Agency has no objections to > geodata derived in part from the "Onondaga County Building Footprints" > layer being incorporated into the OpenStreetMap project geodata > database and displayed publicly on the map. By using the data, > however, the OpenStreetMap project agrees that Onondaga County makes no > claim as to the usefulness, accuracy or completeness of the county's > building footprint file, and the county will not be held responsible > for any omissions or inaccuracies. This data is provided as is and > there is no guarantee that it is suitable for any particular purpose. > Your use of the data is at your own risk. > > Is this licensing favorable for use by the OSM community? > > > > _______________________________________________ > legal-talk mailing list > legal-talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk > > >
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