[OSM-legal-talk] Council Permission Request Accepted - Followup Questions?

[brendan barrett]

Sorry for the multiple posts:

This clause in the license is interesting:

2.6  Copyright

The Municipality grants a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to
the Licensee to use the Data located at the Licensee's address stated
above. The Municipality retains the copyright of all data, as well as
the right to recall this data in the event of any contravention of the
conditions of use, or after completion of use of the data for the
purposes for which it was requested. This license does not grant the
Licensee any right to transfer the Data to other parties. If you
transfer possession of any copy, modification, or portion of the Data
to another party, you will be in breach and your license is
automatically terminated.

hmmm... I would explain the nature of the project (in writing / email)
and get a response (in writing / email) before using the data.


On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 6:02 PM, brendan barrett <shogunz0r at gmail.com> wrote:
> I found their agreement here:
> http://citymaps.durban.gov.za/license_agreement.htm
>
> Perhaps that helps others here with their advice.
>
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Grant Slater
> <openstreetmap at firefishy.com> wrote:
>> Legal,
>>
>> On behalf of OpenStreetMap I asked a large city council (Durban, South
>> Africa) for permission use their online mapping website to find the
>> official names for roads and features we are missing. I also asked for
>> permission (expecting to be denied) to use the shapefiles on their
>> public FTP site.
>> http://citymaps.durban.gov.za/
>>
>> Their reply from the head of their corporate GIS department:
>> "You may use any of our data for your project. Note that the online map
>> is very up-to-date (seldom more than 1 to 2 weeks old), whereas the FTP
>> site is only updated infrequently."
>>
>> AFAIK, they own all their own GIS data, unlike councils in the UK.
>>
>> Advice...
>>
>> Should I; thank them and go ahead and plan a full import of their data?
>> (yay)
>>
>> Or
>>
>> Should I follow-up with a few question before proceeding? Licence,
>> attribution, do-you-really-mean-what-you-just-said... etc etc. What
>> questions?
>>
>> / Grant
>>
>>
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