[OSM-talk] Explaining to NASA why the ASTER data should be freely licensed

[Ian Dees]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab at gmail.com>wrote:

> For satellite imagery it would be a huge win even if we were allowed
> to just use them for tracing on a closed WMS server (as we're doing in
> Gaza), even if we ideally would like to be allowed to do more.


NASA = a US federal government organization. All data originated by US
federal organizations (and especially when funded by tax payer dollars) is
in the public domain. I would imagine that the licensing terms they give are
superseded by these rules.

...or am I missing something?
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