Thanks Michael. Actually seeing a full copy of an email including the OKing the use of gov.au data is what I was waiting for also. Getting an explicit email approving the use is going above and beyond for me and much appreciated.
I haven't been following OSM as much as I did now my uses for it have dropped. So please forgive me if the following question has been answered or has become inflammatory. Does the gov.au Ok also cover the ABS data? As the ABS data is the only thing left stopping me accepting the new terms. Thanks Mark From: Michael Collinson [mailto:m...@ayeltd.biz] Sent: Wednesday, 16 November 2011 2:34 AM To: OSM Australian Talk List Subject: Re: [talk-au] ODbL data.gov.au permission granted On 15/11/2011 11:58, 80n wrote: Can you please publish the verbatim correspondence that you have had with your man at data.gov.au? Your interpretation is fine, but others may see nuances that you have overlooked. The statement on the wiki is not a statement from data.gov.au and counts for nothing unless you have a document from your man at data.gov.au that references it and says yes that's ok. Do you have such a document? Gosh, this is getting kakfaesque. Hope this puts this it to bed: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution/data.gov.au_explicit_permissi on and copied below in response to my request today, also copied below. Mike ------------------------------------- Hi Michael, Thank you for your email. The attribution statement "Contains data from Australian government public information datasets. The original datasets are available from the <http://data.gov.au/> Australian government data website under <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au/> Creative Commons - Attribution 2.5 Australia (CC-BY) and <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/> Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC-BY). We have also been given explicit permission to incorporate and publish such CC-BY licensed geographic coordinate datasets under a free and open license, including the Open Database License, provided that primary attribution is made here and that each dataset used is also listed here in the format Dataset Name, Date Published, License, Agency Name, originally retrieved from <http://data.australia.gov.au/> http://data.australia.gov.au: " accurately reflects what we have said. Regards, Data.gov.au team. -------------------------------- On 15/11/2011 11:35, Michael Collinson wrote: Hi again, Thanks for your email of 19th October. I am rather embarrassed to do this but may I ask to you give a more formal assent to satisfy some of our map data contributors and that I can publish? May be: "The attribution statement "Contains data from Australian government public information datasets. The original datasets are available from the <http://data.gov.au/> Australian government data website under <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au/> Creative Commons - Attribution 2.5 Australia (CC-BY) and <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/> Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC-BY). We have also been given explicit permission to incorporate and publish such CC-BY licensed geographic coordinate datasets under a free and open license, including the Open Database License, provided that primary attribution is made here and that each dataset used is also listed here in the format Dataset Name, Date Published, License, Agency Name, originally retrieved from <http://data.australia.gov.au/> http://data.australia.gov.au: " accurately reflects what we have said." Regards, Michael Collinson OpenStreetMap Foundation --------------------------------
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