CC-BY-A is fine to my knowledge - you can fulfill the attribution requirements with an appropriate attribution in the wiki. See: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors#Australian_government_public_information_datasets http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines#Make_sure_data_license_is_OK
I'd go back and go one further and ensure we have explicit permission (ie: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution/data.gov.au_explicit_permission), which seems likely to be granted, and then knock yourself out :) On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Brett Russell <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi > > I have been working on OSM maps for bushwalking and this has generated a > fair bit of interest. A few people have taken up mapping and one person > approached me on lifting rivers and streams data from the 1:250,000 > publicly available data. My response was no as it is likely copyrighted > and OSM requires no restriction be placed on the data. Not to be defeated > he wrote to A/g Manager, Information & Product Management Policy Unit > Information Management Corporate Services | GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA and > received this reply. > > "Thank you for your email enquiry in regards to copyright and Creative > Commons. The material available as a free download under a Creative Commons > Attribution 3.0 Australia licence is still under copyright. We are > releasing many of our products under the CC-BY licence which means that you > may share (copy, distribute and transmit the work), remix and make adaption > or even make commercial use of the work. The only condition for using the > product under this licence is that you must attribute Geoscience Australia. > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/deed.en > > If you have any further questions or would like me to send you the > attribution statement we require please let me know. > > Regards" > > Given that this data (rough as it might be) might be available what is the > OSM community thoughts on an Australia wide approach? Basically has anyone > been down this road. I would imagine the challenge would be to identify > what data is available under what license. > > Anyway your thoughts please. > > Cheers > > Brett > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > >
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