[Talk-us] Importing County Data

[Mike Thompson]

On Sun, Dec 19, 2021 at 2:45 PM Mike N <niceman at att.net> wrote:

> On 12/18/2021 6:56 PM, Mike Thompson wrote:
> >         However we're not offering the data for sale....
> >
> > ODbL does not prohibit the same of data:
> >
> >
> >       " Can I charge for distributing OSM data or data derived from OSM
> >       data?
> >
> > Yes. You can charge any amount of money you want for any service or data
> > you provide. ...[0]
> >
>
> However when coupled with the Email, does this not count?   I've seen
> quite a number of import projects in the Wiki done on basis of a
> permission Email only.  Or does every license clause have to have a
> lawyer write a waiver to override?
>
I don't know either way.  I am not a lawyer.  It would be good to get the
opinion of someone within the OSM community who is familiar with such
matters.  The email is very general, it would be good if they explicitly
said "we grant you the right to import our data into OSM.  We understand
OSM is licensed under ODbL and that ODbL may not be compatible with the
license originally provided with the data" (I think there is suggested
language on the Wiki), or as you suggested earlier, if they agreed to a
license compatible with ODbL.  It would be good to know that the person
making such statements were authorized by the county to do so as well
(presumably not every county employee is authorized to modify data
licenses).

I am not trying to derail an otherwise good idea, I just think this is
something that we should look into to make sure all is kosher.  Perhaps
posting to the imports list would elicit some responses from people more
informed than I.

Mike
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