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Hi.<br>
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The National Land Survey of Iceland has made their data free of
charge and offer them as downloads. It spans numerous datasets which
would be invaluable to the mapping progress in Iceland. However,
there are terms which must be agreed before access can be legally
obtained. The terms state that a distribution and publication
permission is required for every further distribution or
publication. I've talked to them today and the ministry to drop this
condition in the terms and the director of the agency offered what I
discuss in the next paragraph.<br>
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The director of the agency responded to an e-mail I sent and has
said attribution in the Contributor's page
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors</a>) suffices. The
terms as they are now do state all derived works need a copyright
symbol and the name of the agency (unless the agency asks otherwise,
which I think they will invoke in our case). But the agency also
wants the terms to be displayed on said wiki page, including the
condition that a special permission must be obtained for every
further distribution or publication of those who retrieve data (for
Iceland) from the OSM database.<br>
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I suspect that such a condition is not in the spirit of open data
but nevertheless I decided to inquire about it anyway. Would such a
condition for data be acceptable for data contributions? If the
terms would be on the wiki page, would they be legally binding for
whoever downloads the data?<br>
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The terms are displayed at
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<a href="http://www.lmi.is/almennir-skilmalar/">http://www.lmi.is/almennir-skilmalar/</a>
so you can get the full picture. There should be a Google Translate
option at the top of the page.<br>
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With regards,<br>
Svavar Kjarrval<br>
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