[OSM-legal-talk] Import licensing waiver

[Kathleen Lu]

Given that this is a US county agency, I take it they view the data as
public domain. That's a pretty common view for government entities in the
US.



On Fri, Oct 9, 2020, 1:14 PM Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz at tutanota.com>
wrote:

> But license is still needed, right?
>
> Or is it OK to interpret "Agency has no objections"
> as "sounds like CC0" (I would not do this but maybe...)?
>
>
> Oct 9, 2020, 20:40 by legal-talk at openstreetmap.org:
>
> Yes, it's fine. That is simply a disclaimer, not a limitation on use.
>
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 11:14 AM <lobstereatery at airmail.cc> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have been in contact with the Syracuse-Onondaga County Planning
> Agency (SOCPA), an Onondaga County NY agency, about the licensing of a
> building footprint layer they have. My intention was to import this
> layer after further review by the OSM community and myself. After
> contacting the agency head about a possible waiver for OSM use ( along
> the lines of
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Getting_permission#Letter_Template_1
> ), I received this response:
>
> The Syracuse-Onondaga County Planning Agency has no objections to
> geodata derived in part from the "Onondaga County Building Footprints"
> layer being incorporated into the OpenStreetMap project geodata
> database and displayed publicly on the map.  By using the data,
> however, the OpenStreetMap project agrees that Onondaga County makes no
> claim as to the usefulness, accuracy or completeness of the county's
> building footprint file, and the county will not be held responsible
> for any omissions or inaccuracies. This data is provided as is and
> there is no guarantee that it is suitable for any particular purpose.
> Your use of the data is at your own risk.
>
> Is this licensing favorable for use by the OSM community?
>
>
>
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