[Talk-us] Portland data

[Russ Nelson]

Alan Millar writes:
 > They have provisions for non-profit and educational use of the city GIS
 > data at no cost, or low cost, but it does not include the right to
 > redistribute the data.

But the facts remain the facts, and are not subject to copyright.  If
you represent those facts while supplying your own creativity to the
representation, just as the City of Portland has applied its
creativity to the format of the GIS databases (heavy sarcasm), then
their copyright doesn't apply to you.

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