[OSM-legal-talk] New contributing agency

[Simon Poole]

Hi Fernando

I gather from your questions that they are currently not distributing
the data under a (well-)known licence or on any other documented terms?

In any case before spending to much effort on trying to nail down the
legal side, you really need to clarify if this is suitable data for OSM
and if yes, if there is a process that will result in something that is
digestible by the Brazilian community. So I would strongly suggest at
least starting with the steps outlined in
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines 

As to being mentioned on http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright , there
is no written in stone policy who gets on that page, in the past it
seems to have been used as an extra bargaining chip in negotiation.
Being listed there does not in any way indicate that the contributions
are or were more important than contributions from the individuals and
organisations listed here
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors . Clearly there is a
practical desire to keep the list on the copyright page as short as
possible. Down the road we may have better mechanisms to build the
attribution pages and then that may change. So for now it would depend
on the outcome of any necessary negotiations.

Simon




Am 14.11.2013 18:58, schrieb Fernando Trebien:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I've recently contacted an institute (LABGEO) within a public
> university here in Brazil (UFRGS) and they've shown interest in
> contributing to OSM their data, which includes roads, land contours,
> vegetation data, maybe even geological data (it is a pretty extensive
> database). They would also like to be listed as a contributor here in
> this page: http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright
>
> Though there may be a few details left to check yet, they've stated so
> far that the dada is already regularly used for commercial purposes by
> many Brazilian companies at zero cost. So here's my question: what
> kind of statement do they have to provide so that they get listed in
> that page? What questions does the statement need to answer?
>
> -- 
> Fernando Trebien
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