[Talk-us] Import licensing waiver

[Mateusz Konieczny]

AFAIK "makes no claim as to the usefulness, accuracy or completeness"is not a problem, whoever is doing imports must do this part anyway.

But what is the license of the data?
Maybe "Syracuse-Onondaga County Planning Agency has no objections"
is sufficient (I am not a lawyer) - but only  if that agency holds full rights to the dataset

As usual, legal-talk has greater chance to get response with someone with greater
legal knowledge.

Oct 9, 2020, 14:38 by lobstereatery at airmail.cc:

> Hello,
>
> I have been in contact with the Syracuse-Onondaga County Planning
> Agency (SOCPA), an Onondaga County NY agency, about the licensing of a
> building footprint layer they have. My intention was to import this
> layer after further review by the OSM community and myself. After
> contacting the agency head about a possible waiver for OSM use ( along
> the lines of
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Getting_permission#Letter_Template_1
> ), I received this response:
>
> The Syracuse-Onondaga County Planning Agency has no objections to
> geodata derived in part from the "Onondaga County Building Footprints"
> layer being incorporated into the OpenStreetMap project geodata
> database and displayed publicly on the map.  By using the data,
> however, the OpenStreetMap project agrees that Onondaga County makes no
> claim as to the usefulness, accuracy or completeness of the county's
> building footprint file, and the county will not be held responsible
> for any omissions or inaccuracies. This data is provided as is and
> there is no guarantee that it is suitable for any particular purpose. 
> Your use of the data is at your own risk. 
>
> Is this licensing favorable for use by the OSM community?
>
>
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