> 1)Isn't 50 lakhs a large sum to just get jpg maps? I think so. But governments often may have no facility of their own to make use of shape files. So what they can use may be either hard copies or jpg files. That could be the reason why they have asked for jpg files.
> > 2)If the contract mentions maps only and doesn't specify jpgs, > shouldn't the government be the owner of the data , that is the > shapefiles? Yes, the government should be. I have heard that, in the case of any software work that is done for the government, the ownership of the source code rests with the government by default. If that is true, by extrapolation, the shape files also should belong to the government because, in a way, that is the "source" for the jpg files. Best -- V. Sasi Kumar Free Software Foundation of India http://swatantryam.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
