On 11/29/2012 1:11 PM, Richard Welty wrote:
On 11/29/12 1:03 PM, Steven Johnson wrote:
The
data are copyrighted and Arlington County owns all rights to the data
and
allows use "...as an acknowledged source to produce maps or analysis but
you may not redistribute, resell, or copy the data (except for back-up
purposes)."
the redistribute clause is a real problem, as we don't attempt to control
people taking copies of OSM as long as they honor the ODbL. i'd say this
license is ODbL incompatible (not a lawyer, though.)
richard
Local governments may claim copyright, but whether they can legally is
another matter. A very quick review of Virginia state law appears to
show they have liberal open records laws.
http://www.opengovva.org/virginias-foia-the-law
We should probably track these public records problems, e.g. counties
and cities that claim copyright, etc but the state law says otherwise.
Brian
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