On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Andrew Harvey <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 2:48 AM, 80n <[email protected]> wrote: > > Andrew, that's great that you've had a response from AGIMO. > > Yes it is, I made sure to thank them for this. > > > Would it be possible for you to share a copy of their response with this > > group? I've made a similar request to Grant about his "explicit, express > > permission" and it seems reasonable to ask you the same question. > > > > Sadly, we really need first hand documentary evidence for any claim, > either > > way, to have any value. > > Below I quote the response from the data.gov.au team which I received: > > >OpenStreetMap (OSM) are utilising datasets made available from > data.gov.au > >under CC-BY 2.5 or CC-BY 3.0 only. They are required to attribute the > authors > >correctly, which they now are through their Wiki. This provides an > appropriate > >chain of attribution, in accordance with Creative Commons licensing, for > any > >end user of OSM products. > > > >In the example you provided, you as end user would be obliged to attribute > >OSM when you used the extracted data. They, in turn, are obliged to > attribute > >the original government dataset. We do not consider that what we are > providing > >is “special permission” – we have only clarified our position on > appropriate > >attribution. > Thank you, Andrew. I wonder if Grant received a similar answer but interpreted it in a different way. Grant? Perhaps we'll never know.... 80n
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