[Talk-us] Import licensing waiver

[Mateusz Konieczny]

It was a correct one - you were aware about it and learned about another
one that may be more useful :)


Oct 9, 2020, 20:05 by lobstereatery at airmail.cc:

> Ok, thank you for the guidance. I will forward to legal-talk, and I
> apologize if this wasn't the correct mailing list.
>
> On Fri, 2020-10-09 at 15:44 +0200, Mateusz Konieczny wrote:
>
>> 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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