[OSM-talk] EU Corinne dataset in the Public Domain

[Rahkonen Jukka]

Edoardo Marascalchi wrote: 
> Riverlab (aka Davide) pointed me to the Corine Land Cover dataset from

> the UE-EEA agency.
> Davide asked me about the licence.. i looked at the page:

>
<http://dataservice.eea.europa.eu/dataservice/metadetails.asp?id=1007>
http://dataservice.eea.europa.eu/dataservice/metadetails.asp?id=1007

I had a quick look on Corine land cover data and I think that the
downloadable 
datasets are interesting and might be partly usable for OSM project.
Corine brochure can be found here:
http://terrestrial.eionet.europa.eu/CLC2000/docs/publications/corinescre
en.pdf
<http://terrestrial.eionet.europa.eu/CLC2000/docs/publications/corinescr
een.pdf> 
 
When it comes to OSM, an European wide image with 100 meter pixel size
showing classified land use could be useful:
http://dataservice.eea.europa.eu/dataservice/metadetails.asp?id=1010
<http://dataservice.eea.europa.eu/dataservice/metadetails.asp?id=1010> 
 
For easy data import the corresponding vector data set would be
preferred:
http://dataservice.eea.europa.eu/dataservice/metadetails.asp?id=950
 
Now the question is if these data can be used. These is this document
about terms of use:
http://dataservice.eea.europa.eu/dataservice/termsofuse.asp
 
Then in another place you can read:
"The information available in these data is under copyright of the 
EEA and within the public domain. Public domain information in this 
these data may be used free of charge, provided the source is
acknowledged. 
The acknowledgement should read "(c) EEA, Copenhagen, [year]""
 
And a third version:
"EEA grants free access to all its data/applications provided that 
the user agrees not to use the data/applications for commercial purposes

unless the Agency has expressly granted the right to do so to and
provided
that the user agrees to display a link to the EEA web site 
http://www.eea.europa.eu and to acknowledge the source as follows:
Copyright EEA, Copenhagen, 2007."
 
So confusingly the data are of public domain variety that is not open 
for commersial? How about OSM, is it commercial or not?
 
I guess here is place for yet another never ending legal talk. Perhaps 
it would be best if someone from the Foundation just makes a telephone 
call to EEA and asks if it is OK to use the data in OSM or not.
 
Jukka Rahkonen
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