[Talk-us] US Addressing

[Brian May]

On 11/29/2012 1:11 PM, Richard Welty wrote:
> On 11/29/12 1:03 PM, Steven Johnson wrote:
>> The
>> data are copyrighted and Arlington County owns all rights to the data 
>> and
>> allows use "...as an acknowledged source to produce maps or analysis but
>> you may not redistribute, resell, or copy the data (except for back-up
>> purposes)."
>>
> the redistribute clause is a real problem, as we don't attempt to control
> people taking copies of OSM as long as they honor the ODbL. i'd say this
> license is ODbL incompatible (not a lawyer, though.)
>
> richard
>

Local governments may claim copyright, but whether they can legally is 
another matter. A very quick review of Virginia state law appears to 
show they have liberal open records laws.
http://www.opengovva.org/virginias-foia-the-law

We should probably track these public records problems, e.g. counties 
and cities that claim copyright, etc but the state law says otherwise.

Brian