[OSM-talk] Confusing licence terms on AND netherlands dataset.

[Steve Coast]

On 6 Sep 2007, at 17:36, Gilles Bassière wrote:

> Hi list !
>
>
> I'm currently doing an internship in which I have to benchmark several
> map rendering engines. To do so, I needed a large dataset to test
> performance and stability in a real situation. I found the AND dataset
> for the Netherlands and it is just perfect (even though some
> inconsistencies exist [1]). I dumped the data from the shape files  
> to a
> postgresql database and I'm now using it locally to test softwares
> against it. As part of this project, I intend to make available online
> an OpenLayers-based demo, hence publish AND/OSM data on the web. This
> leads me to wonder about a few things.
>
> Regarding legal issue, I don't understand whether I'm allowed to  
> publish
> this demo or not. Indeed, the Licence notice in the documentation  
> mentions:
>
> "OpenStreetMap is allowed to import the Navigation Shape format
> description in the OpenStreetMap Wiki and import the digital maps  
> in the
> OpenStreetMap. This document and the digital map may be edited by the
> OpenStreetMap community under the Creative
> Commons-Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license."
>
> This does not state that the data is actually under CC-By-SA. It  
> clearly
> allows  OpenStreetMap to import the data, meaning that once in
> OpenStreetMap's database this same data will be licensed under CC- 
> By-SA.
> What is not that clear to me, although it seem to be the case,  
> given the
> previous paragraph, is the question of raw AND data being licenced  
> under
> CC-By-SA.
>
> As I don't want to go against license terms, I would like to be sure
> that I can publish my work without trouble. Do you think it's  
> alright ?

No, to the best of my knowledge only OSM can publish it CCBYSA.

If you then take a planet dump with the imported data in it, you can  
of course use that. But not the shape files.

have fun,

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