That was exactly my reaction as well. My understanding is that these data are essentially in the public domain. I'll note it in the spreadsheet.
-- SEJ -- twitter: @geomantic -- skype: sejohnson8 "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." -- Einstein On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Brian May <[email protected]> wrote: > 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<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 > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/talk-us<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us> >
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