[Talk-is] Nöfn jökla

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Daníel Gunnarsson
<danielgunnars at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/9/23 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab at gmail.com>:
>
>>
>> Það er oft óljóst hvað er átt við með svona yfirlýsingum. Það er
>> líkast til best að hafa samband við Richard S. Williams (á
>> geoinfo at comcast.net) með svona spurningar eins og er lagt til á
>> vefsíðunni fyrir bókina.
>>
>
> Ég skrifaði smá uppkast að bréfi til Richards. Er ekki eithvað svona
> standard kynningarstuff sem ég ætti að bæta við áður en ég sendi
> þetta? Endilega bætið einhverju við eða betrumbætið.

Flott. bætti smá við.

> Subject: Geographic Names of Iceland's Glaciers in the
> OpenStreetMap.org database
>
> I'm contacting you on behalf of the Icelandic OpenStreetMap community.
>
> We would like to get permission to use some data found in the text of
> the report: Geographic Names of Iceland's Glaciers: Historic and
> Modern
> To my knowledge the text is public domain but int the cover of the
> book is a clause saying that we must be granted permission before
> using any copyrighted material from the copyright owner.

... Can you clarify which parts of the work are in the public domain?
We're interested in sourcing the geodata found in the report. Both the
names of natural features as well as their coordinates.

> So my question to you is: which of the material found in the report is
> copyrighted and which is not? And Can you grant us this permission?
> The data we are interested in the most are the names and coordinates
> of the glaciers, mostly smaller child-glacier which names are not of
> common knowledge of most Icelanders.

... "mostly smaller sub-glaciers whose names" ...