<html><P>Kristoff,</P>
<P>I don't think a license that forbids commercial use of the data is compatible with openstreetmap. Doing so would in my opinion be counter to the spirit.</P>
<P>Best regards,</P>
<P>Gyrbo<BR><BR>----- Oorspronkelijk bericht ----- <BR>Van : Kristoff Bonne [mailto:kristoff.bonne@skypro.be]<BR>Verzonden : dinsdag , september 22, 2009 08:37 AM <BR>Aan : talk-be@openstreetmap.org<BR>Onderwerp : [OSM-talk-be] licence-agreement for using 3th party received information ???<BR><BR>Hi All, <BR><BR><BR>After I managed to receive the official streetmap data from my <BR>town-administration, I'm now quering the neighbouring towns for the same <BR>thing. <BR><BR><BR>Now, IMHO, what would help to persuade the administrations is a bit more <BR>legal security on the use of this information. After all, this <BR>information does also have a commercial value (when they are also <BR>licenced to the commercial streetmap companies) so it might be usefull <BR>to provide the same kind of thing. <BR><BR>So, I don't know how the discussion on the "vzw" is going, but perhaps <BR>one of the things that I would concider it to be for it, would be to <BR>draw up a formal licence-agreement (perhaps you can ask legal support <BR>from one of the other "open-source" related organisation on this) and to <BR>be the party which who (say) a city council or a town's administration <BR>can sign this agreement. <BR><BR><BR>IMHO, the license would need to contain something like this: (this is <BR>just a rough idea, I tried to balance the rights of both parties as much <BR>as possible). <BR>- the city-council is copyright-owner of the information and remains it <BR>to be; including in furher copies of this information <BR>- the city-council permit the information to be entered into the <BR>openstreetmap-server, under the open-documentation licence <BR>- no commercial use of this information is allowed (this would stop the <BR>commercial companies from copying the streetmap-information from the <BR>openstreetmap-server instead of asking (read: pay for) it from the <BR>city-councils. <BR><BR><BR><BR>It would then be usefull if the vzw would enter this kind of information <BR>into the openstreetmap-server. The situation now is that -as I am the <BR>person who received the informaton from my city-council and who uploaded <BR>it- if any legal problems would arrize this would all trace-back to me! <BR><BR>So, if information received from thirth-parties would be uploaded by an <BR>account which is owned by the vzw; this would also safeguard the <BR>volonteers who do the work from being legally draged into a court-case <BR>if problems would arrize (e.g. with the commercial streetmap-companies). <BR><BR><BR><BR>I think, if you have an organisation that works with volonteers, it's <BR>always your responsability to make sure these volonteers are as much <BR>"protected" as possible. (this is a bit in the same line as the message <BR>I posted earlier on assurence for volonteers who take part in a <BR>streetmapping-event). <BR><BR><BR>Any comments or questions welcome! <BR><BR><BR>Cheerio! <BR>Kr. Bonne. <BR><BR>-- <BR>jabber/gtalk: kristoff@krbonne.net <BR><BR></P>