[OSM-talk-be] licence-agreement for using 3th party received information ???

[Dennis Bollyn]

Kristoff,
I don't think a license that forbids commercial use of the data is compatible with openstreetmap. Doing so would in my opinion be counter to the spirit.
Best regards,
Gyrbo

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Van : Kristoff Bonne [mailto:kristoff.bonne at skypro.be]
Verzonden : dinsdag , september 22, 2009 08:37 AM 
Aan : talk-be at openstreetmap.org
Onderwerp : [OSM-talk-be] licence-agreement for using 3th party received information ???

Hi All, 


After I managed to receive the official streetmap data from my 
town-administration, I'm now quering the neighbouring towns for the same 
thing. 


Now, IMHO, what would help to persuade the administrations is a bit more 
legal security on the use of this information. After all, this 
information does also have a commercial value (when they are also 
licenced to the commercial streetmap companies) so it might be usefull 
to provide the same kind of thing. 

So, I don't know how the discussion on the "vzw" is going, but perhaps 
one of the things that I would concider it to be for it, would be to 
draw up a formal licence-agreement (perhaps you can ask legal support 
from one of the other "open-source" related organisation on this) and to 
be the party which who (say) a city council or a town's administration 
can sign this agreement. 


IMHO, the license would need to contain something like this: (this is 
just a rough idea, I tried to balance the rights of both parties as much 
as possible). 
- the city-council is copyright-owner of the information and remains it 
to be; including in furher copies of this information 
- the city-council permit the information to be entered into the 
openstreetmap-server, under the open-documentation licence 
- no commercial use of this information is allowed (this would stop the 
commercial companies from copying the streetmap-information from the 
openstreetmap-server instead of asking (read: pay for) it from the 
city-councils. 



It would then be usefull if the vzw would enter this kind of information 
into the openstreetmap-server. The situation now is that -as I am the 
person who received the informaton from my city-council and who uploaded 
it- if any legal problems would arrize this would all trace-back to me! 

So, if information received from thirth-parties would be uploaded by an 
account which is owned by the vzw; this would also safeguard the 
volonteers who do the work from being legally draged into a court-case 
if problems would arrize (e.g. with the commercial streetmap-companies). 



I think, if you have an organisation that works with volonteers, it's 
always your responsability to make sure these volonteers are as much 
"protected" as possible. (this is a bit in the same line as the message 
I posted earlier on assurence for volonteers who take part in a 
streetmapping-event). 


Any comments or questions welcome! 


Cheerio! 
Kr. Bonne. 

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