Thank you Stewart, Well ... this is the best way to go !
Regards, Bruno 2015-10-12 8:38 GMT-04:00 Stewart C. Russell <[email protected]>: > Hi Bruno, > > OpenStreetMaps imports CANVEC data. > CANVEC OpenData are provided by Natural Resources Canada. > All Natural Resources Canada data are subject to the Open Government > Licence – Canada. > <http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada> > Open Government Licence - Canada includes a restrictive attribution term > which is not compatible with our ODBL licence. > > > The ‘© OpenStreetMap contributors > <http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/43.66316/-79.41078>’ link on the > map has the following in the *Our contributors* section: > > *Canada*: Contains data from GeoBase®, GeoGratis (© Department of Natural > Resources Canada), CanVec (© Department of Natural Resources Canada), and > StatCan (Geography Division, Statistics Canada). > > This would be referring to the explicit permission that NRCan/StatCan gave > OSM some years ago. This is a form of attribution. > > Many other national contributors > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors> use an OGL licence, > such as in the UK > <https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/>. > These contain very similar attribution terms as the OGL-CA licence. I > noticed our Canada section of the (now vast) contributors' page was missing > language that the OGL-CA licence requires, so I added it: ‘*Contains > information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada > <http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada>.*’ I may have > put it in the wrong place; discuss. > > cheers, > Stewart > (who is totally *not* getting into the *Just because you can, doesn't > mean you should* bit of the CanVec imports argument; nope, nosirree …) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca > > -- Bruno Remy
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