[OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Canadian data: new license is more permissive

Robert (Jamie) Munro rjmunro at arjam.net
Thu Apr 5 12:04:15 BST 2007


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Interlug wrote:
> http://www.news.gc.ca/cfmx/view/en/index.jsp?articleid=290039&
> 
> I'll take this over to legal....

The license is below:
http://www.geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/geogratis/en/licence.jsp

You have to write "© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada,
Department of Natural Resources. All rights reserved."

When blatantly all rights are not reserved. They are all granted
elsewhere in the document.

Someone should try to contact the Canadian government and say that we
can't use their attribution because we want to integrate the data with
TIGER and other data in a seamless way, and it would be a lie to say
that TIGER was copyright the Queen. Would it be OK if we just said
"Portions © Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, Department of
Natural Resources." on our web site, but let further distribution not
say that?

Robert (Jamie) Munro

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