[Talk-ca] Yukon Mapping Protected areas

[Sam Vekemans]

Yup,
I was waiting for you to respond. :-)

Feel free to read the link to the licence.
When you have specific reasons why, other than "You don't like it".
Please do share it.

"You may not use this data .... Unless written permission is granted..."

That interpritation i have means that; On the wiki page*, i can write
a note, and refer back to the email, where the "General Intent" of the
approval is ok. And as long as the data provider understands the
"intended usage" (which Matt does) and that is clear. So there is no
worries.

*yup, i havent made a wiki page for, nor have i started using it as a source.
That 'Unrestricted end user licence' looks the same as the Geogratis
one. But the copyright is still, "yes you can use it". (and IANAL it
is slightly different)

A copyright notice of "Gained Rw Approval" is a little more clear, and
perhaps an OSM Canada Foundation, i have already proposed & Crickets
were heard. :-)

So in sum, i'll message Legal talk, after, i make a wiki page & see
just what is the proposed tags.
... Anyone else is free todo this also if they like.

So at your "general intent" of your reply, i "shelve it" until all the
"recieved Rw Approval" has been imported, and deal with it later :-)

Cheers,
Sam

On 5/13/10, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 2:36 AM, Matt Wilkie <maphew at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Cool, so i take that as confirmation we can use it for OSM.
>
> Please don't presume that.  Please confirm it.
>
>> Yes, the parks and protected area data is free and libre, as is all
>> the gis data from Environment Yukon found on the website. (Please note
>> that the Wildlife Key Areas does have it's own license agreement.)
>
> "Free and libre" mean different things to different people, and OSM
> uses a particularly strict interpretation in the interest of keeping
> OSM "cleaner than clean" from a copyright point of view.
>
> Please, please, please.  Collect the information, link to the license,
> summarize the license problem areas, and then start a discussion on
> legal-talk.
>
> Just saying, "yeah, we're cool" without backup is risky.
>
> The proliferation of homegrown licenses at municipalities is making it
> very difficult to include that data in OSM.  The licenses interact
> with each other like citrus and dairy in a single glass.  Fine in
> isolation, but a complete mess when mixed.
>
> Even if the person in charge grants you an "okay for use in OSM",
> without a written agreement to relicense as CCBYSA, and in future
> ODbL, risks the need to remove that data later.
>


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