[OSM-talk] Canadian (Gov't supplied) vector data

[Emil]

On 8/3/06, Dan Karran <dan at karran.net> wrote:
> On 8/3/06, Interlug <interlug at weait.net> wrote:
> > Canadian road data (and more) is available at http://geobase.ca/  Their
> > license appears (to this non-lawyer) to be compatible with the OSM
> > licence.  http://geobase.ca/geobase/en/licence.jsp
> >
> > Is this a worthy uploading and conversion project for OSM?
>
> IANAL but it seems like it's compatible. It looks like we can use it
> pretty much freely and base derivatives upon it. However...

I'm not sure it does.... They say it can be revoked at any time, and
in any case is only valid for 1 year....

I'm not sure a court would accept that their revoking would trigger a
copyright infringement, but still....

Also the whole thing is quite dodgy, referring to "Intellectual
property rights", whatever they are, rather than copyrights, etc. It
reads more like an EULA. I think they're confused.

Emil