<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">If the data is licensed under ODBL, I do not see any objection to incorporating it into OSM. However, my legal expertise is certainly limited any you may want to consider consulting the legal-talk mailing-list for more qualified statements. It will certainly be interested to them to see a large multilateral organisation like FAO incorporating ODBL. <div><br></div><div>I would suggest you include a source-tag, so one has an idea where the data is coming from. Additionally, it is considered good practice to document any import, either in a dedicated wiki-page or on the Burundian wiki page.</div><div><br></div><div>Marc<br><div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 03.08.2011, at 23:56, Arie Scheffer wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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Hello Marc and others,<br>
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After you contacted me I took another look at the data I used.
Firstly, I'm certain I downloaded the zip-file containing Burindian
border data from <a href="http://www.fao.org/geonetwork/srv/en/main.home">FAO
GeoNetwork</a> where It was credited to Africover, but today I
couldn't find it there. Secondly, the file concerned is called
bu-adm.zip containing 7 files: bu-adm.dbf, bu-adm.prj, bu-adm.sbn,
bu-adm.sbx, bu-adm.shp, bu-adm.shp.xml, bu-adm.shx. I couldn't find
any declaration of ownership in the files but in Bu-adm.shp.xml I
found this license text:<br>
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### 1.0 Definitions of Capitalised Words<br>
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incorporated<br>
by reference into the Database Contents License.<br>
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### 2.0 Rights granted and Conditions of Use<br>
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royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable copyright
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Contents, whether in the original medium or any other. These
rights<br>
explicitly include commercial use, and do not exclude any field of<br>
endeavour. These rights include, without limitation, the right to<br>
sublicense the work.<br>
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2.2 Conditions of Use. You must comply with the ODbL.<br>
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part of the Database. Please see the ODbL covering the Database
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2.4 Non-assertion of copyright over facts. The Licensor takes the<br>
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This license is fullly compliant with OSM's license. Any claims made
by Africover have no bearing on this data file. Further, I am unable
to attribute the data correctly. I should therefore not use a
source: key.<br>
Would you agree?<br>
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Arie<br>
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Op 3-8-2011 9:17, Marc Zoss schreef:
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<pre wrap="">Hi everybody
I was contacted by Arie who recently imported some Burundian border since I did quite some work on the Tanzanian coverage.
When I recently added some Tanzanian borders I stumbled across FAO's Africover dataset, but due to license restrictions I decided not to use it (and instead went for <a href="http://maplibary.org">maplibary.org</a> which is PD). Africover's license is not compatible with CCbySA / ODBL and so I tried to get Africovers permission specifically and wrote them. I got a negative reply from Africover's Craig van Hagen on 28.10.2010 (see quote below). So I am bit surprised reading that the same Craig van Hagen seems to have granted OSM the permission to use Africover data.
Has anyone some more information and is it documented somewhere?
Best regards
Marc (aka FischersFritz)
Dear Sir / Madam,
Craig von Hagen sent you the following query from the Africover website:
Subject: Data request
This data cannot be uploaded to OSM as it belong to the country specified
Thanks,
Kind Regards
FAO - Africover
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