2009/11/2 Russ Nelson <[email protected]>: > Ulf Lamping writes: > > Russ Nelson schrieb: > > > Peteris Krisjanis writes: > > > > Anyway, to resume all this discussion - PLEASE don't trace from photo > > > > without permission for OSM, whatever your temptations are. > > > > > > Errrr, no. The USGS Digital Ortho Quads are in the public domain; no > > > permission necessary to trace off of them. > > > > If the material is "licensed as public domain", this *is* one of the > > possible permissions Peteris is talking about. > > > > Is this really that hard to get? > > Seemingly, since you don't understand that when something is in the > public domain, there is no copyright owner to get permission from. It > sounds like your conflating a public domain work which is free of > copyright with a copyrighted work licensed "as if" it were public > domain. >
PD is permission from government to do whatever you want with subject, they don't protect it with copyright law. If you really think that PD is some natural right given by Nature/God, you are strongly mistaken. Cheers, Peter. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
