[OSM-legal-talk] Possible datasources: Corine Land Cover 2000dataset

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

Ciprian Talaba:
>Sent: 12 March 2009 9:28 AM
>To: legal-talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: [OSM-legal-talk] Possible datasources: Corine Land Cover
>2000dataset
>
>Hi all,
>
>I know the discussion lately have been towards agreeing about an OSM
>license, and probably this is not the best time to ask this question.
>But I came across Corine Land Cover 2000 datasets and I want to make sure
>that they can be use in OSM. The organization behind CLC 2000 is European
>Environment Agency (EEA) and the website where the dataset is available
>have some legal information like:
>1. on the page http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright
>"Unless otherwise indicated, the information available from this site is
>within the public domain. Public domain information on the EEA web pages
>may be downloaded free of charge, and reproduced provided the source is
>acknowledged*.
>.............................
>* Citing this website"
>
>2. on the page http://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/landuse/clc-download from
>where you can download the datasets, in the tab "My details" where is the
>following notice:
>"The information available in this application is under copyright of EEA
>and within the public domain. Public domain information in this application
>may
>be used free of charge, provided the source is acknowledged. The
>acknowledgment should read (c) EEA, Copenhagen, 2007"
>
>So my opinion is that we can use data from CLC 2000 as long as we add the
>source as a tag to each imported element. So you see any problems in using
>this dataset?
>
>Thanks,
>Ciprian

Ciprian,

I would suggest you drop this information on a wiki page and ask for
comments there as well. At face value on what you have put in your email it
looks similar to other data sets that require attribution. We normally deal
with that as you say by adding the correct source tag and also placing the
attribution on the wiki page at
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors and or
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution (looks like those two pages
should be combined or redirect to just one.)

As a final confirmation its worth writing to the data provider explaining
the intention and how attribution is dealt with. That at least shows a paper
trail if anyone asks a question at a later date.

Finally its worth doing any imports under a specifically set up username,
that way its easy to identify the original upload of data.

Hope these pointers help.

Cheers

Andy