On 28/09/2009 08:53, Nick Whitelegg wrote: >> Incidentally, as well as the possible OS contamination, the Council will >> itself have database and content copyright in the data, so explicit >> permission would be needed from them to incorporate and release it under >> our CCBySA license. In obtaining that permission you could ask them to >> assert that the data was collected without reference to OS or other >> copyright base maps. > > One council (West Sussex) referred to its data as "public domain" when I > last looked. I'd guess that's the same for all councils.
Well, their website has a clear copyright notice and the legal page says you need to contact them to use any data. I imagine many councils would be quite happy to give permission, but the default position is that copyright persists in their data. David _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
