Purchasing stolen maps does not make them public domain... 2010/6/24 [email protected] <[email protected]>: > > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Kirill Bestoujev <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> No, they are not out of copyright. All the rights of USSR were >> transfered to Russian Federation. Neither USSR, nor Russian Federation >> ever transferred those maps to public domain or in any other way >> allowed free use of them. Most of that maps were stolen from exUSSR >> military bases in republics, which separated from USSR in 90-s. >> >> In Russia disclosing of such maps (not 100k, they were openly >> publiched, but 50k) is still a crime - treason. There was such a case >> a month ago. >> >> SO: old USSR military maps are not allowed to be used in OSM. > > Oh really? > I read that they were sold. > We had purchased them and were using them, also for osm. > The consensus was that they are public domain. > lets straighten this out. > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg27951.html > mike >
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