Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [HOT] Imagery license clarification needed

2013-08-29 Thread Stephan Knauss
Hello Kate, On 29.08.2013 02:24, Kate Chapman wrote: For OSM to be on the safe side: Would it be possible to document the permissions you have for tracing in a clearly understandable way in the wiki? The current license text leaves a bit of uncertainty what a derived imagery product is. I can

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [HOT] Imagery license clarification needed

2013-08-29 Thread Mikel Maron
Working Group le...@osmfoundation.org; hot h...@openstreetmap.org Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 2:27 AM Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [HOT] Imagery license clarification needed Hello Kate, On 29.08.2013 02:24, Kate Chapman wrote: For OSM to be on the safe side: Would it be possible

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [HOT] Imagery license clarification needed

2013-08-29 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2013/8/29 Mikel Maron mikel_ma...@yahoo.com Their is clear and full understanding by USG that data digitized into OSM is made available under the ODbL, which allows commercial use. This is stated on their website at https://hiu.state.gov/ittc/ittc.aspx(Description tab). Data cc-by-sa

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [HOT] Imagery license clarification needed

2013-08-29 Thread Simon Poole
:* Thursday, August 29, 2013 2:27 AM *Subject:* Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [HOT] Imagery license clarification needed Hello Kate, On 29.08.2013 02:24, Kate Chapman wrote: For OSM to be on the safe side: Would it be possible to document the permissions you have

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [HOT] Imagery license clarification needed

2013-08-28 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com wrote: Hi All, This has come up before. HOT is part of a pilot for the initiative Imagery to the Crowd (1). Representatives of HOT and the US Government met multiple times in all day meetings to discuss what the NextView license

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [HOT] Imagery license clarification needed

2013-08-28 Thread Mikel Maron
Nice idea, but OSM doesn't operate like that. If someone imports data, they don't usually ask for the legal opinion of the OSMF or invite an OSMF representative to a meeting. They just make sure the negotiated terms conforms to the understanding of the ODbL, etc, invite community input, and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [HOT] Imagery license clarification needed

2013-08-28 Thread Stephan Knauss
Hi, i think Richard points to the right direction. Richard Weait writes: Were any potential data donor, or imagery donor in this case, able to state, I grant use of {dataset} to OpenStreetMap contributors for use under the terms of the OpenStreetMap License and Contributor Terms, well that

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [HOT] Imagery license clarification needed

2013-08-28 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi All, I think that lawyers from the provider of the license interpreting the license as okay for use in OSM is no issue. Josh Campbell above is the lead for the project. Currently this project is up for an award, it is not putting the database at risk. On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Stephan

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [HOT] Imagery license clarification needed

2013-08-27 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi All, This has come up before. HOT is part of a pilot for the initiative Imagery to the Crowd (1). Representatives of HOT and the US Government met multiple times in all day meetings to discuss what the NextView license means as well as to have the vectors available under ODbL. The legal