<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Kirill Bestoujev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bestoujev@gmail.com">bestoujev@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
No, they are not out of copyright. All the rights of USSR were<br>
transfered to Russian Federation. Neither USSR, nor Russian Federation<br>
ever transferred those maps to public domain or in any other way<br>
allowed free use of them. Most of that maps were stolen from exUSSR<br>
military bases in republics, which separated from USSR in 90-s.<br>
<br>
In Russia disclosing of such maps (not 100k, they were openly<br>
publiched, but 50k) is still a crime - treason. There was such a case<br>
a month ago.<br>
<br>
SO: old USSR military maps are not allowed to be used in OSM.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>
Oh really? <br>
I read that they were sold.<br>
We had purchased them and were using them, also for osm. <br>
The consensus was that they are public domain.<br>
lets straighten this out.<br><br><a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/talk@openstreetmap.org/msg27951.html">http://www.mail-archive.com/talk@openstreetmap.org/msg27951.html</a><br>
mike<br>