[OSM-talk] Breach of Copyright?
Nick Whitelegg
Nick.Whitelegg at solent.ac.uk
Mon Sep 28 08:53:48 BST 2009
>Incidentally, as well as the possible OS contamination, the Council will
>itself have database and content copyright in the data, so explicit
>permission would be needed from them to incorporate and release it under
>our CCBySA license. In obtaining that permission you could ask them to
>assert that the data was collected without reference to OS or other
>copyright base maps.
One council (West Sussex) referred to its data as "public domain" when I
last looked. I'd guess that's the same for all councils.
Nick
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