[OSM-talk] http://maintainedhighways.hants.gov.uk/

Rich r.russell-3 at student.manchester.ac.uk
Mon Sep 18 06:00:40 BST 2006


Since they've gone as far as they have in allowing reproduction, it might be
worth asking if they could ask the person in suitable authority in the
council if the OSM license allowing commercial use is acceptable, and if we
can have it for more than 5 years, etc. They might think it's cheeky of
course.

On 18/09/06, Emil <emil79 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I would say that the license is incompatible, e.g.
>
> "7.1 publishing the Material in any medium, providing that this is not
> for profit making purposes. "
> and
> "This Licence is for the period of five years from the date of your
> Application."
> (And other things.)
>
> However, if you are merely obtaining details of road numbers in order
> to label roads, then I think this is the same as the question of
> looking up street names on an OS map -  myself and a few others
> believe that this doesn't fall within the scope of copyright law, but
> other people disagree with this.
>
> Emil
>
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