[OSM-talk] Licence of Soviet military topographic maps

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Kirill Bestoujev <bestoujev at gmail.com>wrote:

> No, they are not out of copyright. All the rights of USSR were
> transfered to Russian Federation. Neither USSR, nor Russian Federation
> ever transferred those maps to public domain or in any other way
> allowed free use of them. Most of that maps were stolen from exUSSR
> military bases in republics, which separated from USSR in 90-s.
>
> In Russia disclosing of such maps (not 100k, they were openly
> publiched, but 50k) is still a crime - treason. There was such a case
> a month ago.
>
> SO: old USSR military maps are not allowed to be used in OSM.
>

Oh really?
I read that they were sold.
We had purchased them and were using them, also for osm.
The consensus was that they are public domain.
lets straighten this out.

http://www.mail-archive.com/talk@openstreetmap.org/msg27951.html
mike
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