[OSM-talk-be] Municipality borders

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Ben Laenen schreef:
> On Saturday 07 February 2009, Renaud MICHEL wrote:
>   
>> Hello Mathias
>>
>> Le samedi 07 février 2009 à 09:43, Mathias Versichele a écrit :
>>     
>>> one thing that has currently been bugging me is the lack of
>>> municipality borders in Belgium. I have a shapefile with all the
>>> municipality borders of the flemish region, but I don't know the
>>> source. I got it from a source at the university a few years ago
>>> for a small GIS project, but the file was never associated with any
>>> metadata indicating the source... It's kind of annoying to have the
>>> file there, but not be able to use it, or should I just take the
>>> risk ?
>>>       
>> I would say you should not risk having someone coming  some time
>> later, when the data has been integrated and enhanced, and force you
>> to remove all because they don't want their intellectual property
>> being used.
>>
>> So if you don't know where the data come from you should not used it.
>>
>> Maybe you could get in touch with the people who provided the data
>> and ask them where it comes from.
>>     
>
>
> Indeed, don't use it unless you know the source.
>
>   

If the source is "the taxpayer", you are "OBLIGED" to use it.  I mean, 
if the source is the Flemish Governement, you should reason that if you 
may not use it, you can run naked on the streat and fetch your pension.

Look here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2006/mar/09/education.epublic


Article I found reading here somewhere:
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/openstreemaps_free_softwares_answer_google_and_commercially_restricted_geo_data 

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/large_hadron_collider_switches_if_its_end_world_it_will_be_powered_gnu_linux