[OSM-talk-be] AGIV

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 04:11:04PM +0200, Ben Abelshausen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> There is a new episode in the AGIV-CRAB-OSM story.
> 
> Today they released the CRAB database using the new flanders open data
> licence [1]. This means that now we can start the process of verification
> with the Imports-list and the DWG that the licence is ok and we can start
> using AGIV as a source when mapping.
> 
> I will take care of this but help is always welcome. If there is someone
> dutch-speaking here with a verifiable legal experitse that could help me
> translate the licence into english and discuss with the DWG that would be
> nice.
> 
> What I understand from reading the licence [2] using this data in the
> context of OSM should not be a problem anymore except for the need to
> mention the source when distributing the data. This should not be a problem
> because I have confirmation from someone at AGIV that a source-mention on
> the wiki is enough for them. This means they will consider themselves one
> of the "© OpenStreetMap contributors" :-) !

Reading the license, I can see no problem at all.

I'm not sure what you mean with "verifiable legal experitse".  I'm
not a lawyer, but I did read many license to check that they are
free or not.  If that is good enough I'm willing to help with
getting this officially approved.


Kurt