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

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Ian Dees<ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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 superseded by these rules.

ASTER is a joint mission between NASA a few Japanese organizations.
As such, I don't think that public domain status can be automatically
assumed of the ASTER data.

http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/about.asp

-- 
Jeff Ollie