[OSM-legal-talk] Interpretation of a Mexian license

[Andres Ortiz]

Alex Barth <alex at ...> writes:

> 
> I agree the license is not permissive enough but I think we should wait with
removing the data.
> 
> Last Thursday we had a meeting with Alejandro Cervantes, Subdirector de
Vinculación con Sectores
> Estratégicos of INEGI, the Mexican national statistics institute who's data is
in question here. The
> meeting was unrelated to this import.
> 
> INEGI's data policies are changing right now under the specter of the the Open
Government Partnership, he
> has assured us verbally that as of recently, there's no problem in using their
data for OpenStreetMap.
> This is of course not enough for starting to use INEGI data in OpenStreetMap,
so I have followed up with him
> to get this statement in written form including a link to published terms of
use or laws.
> 
> I hope to hear back from him this week. I will also try to get information
through other channels.
> 
> Any pointers to the data that has been imported?
> 
> On Aug 11, 2012, at 2:11 PM, Paul Norman wrote:
> 
> > I recently came across an undocumented import where the source has a license
> > in Spanish. Not speaking Spanish, I can't interpret this license but the
> > Google translation raises some concerns with at least one of the terms.
> > The license is located at
> > http://www.inegi.org.mx/inegi/acercade/condiciones.aspx?=492
> > 
> > The term that I have concerns with is "Queda por tanto prohibida toda
> > comercialización de este derecho de acceso"
> > 		
> > Google translates this as "Is therefore prohibited any commercialization of
> > this right of access"
> > 
> > This could either be a NC term which prohibits commercial use of the data or
> > a term which prohibits commercial use of their server but does not affect
> > derivative works of their data. If the first, the data must obviously be
> > removed from OSM. If the second, it depends on the rest of the license.
> > 
> > Could a Spanish-speaker either provide some interpretation of the license,
> > or a better translation?
> > 
> > 
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> Alex Barth
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> 

Hi Paul, 

What data was included in the import you mention? I would like to know what data
from INEGI was imported to start from there and investigate directly on the
license possible restrictions since according to the law, this Institute should
make publicly available for any use all geographic and statistical information
gathered by them. 

Thanks,
Andres