[Live-demo] License on data

[Angelos Tzotsos]

How about this?
Can we use it?

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ASTER
http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/gdem.asp


On 12/12/2012 01:36 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> Scott,
> Based on this response, I'd be inclined to encourage you to avoid 
> using the SRTM data due to the licence.
>
> Re datasets on OSGeo-Live, look at:
> http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/overview.html
>
>
>    Data
>
>  * Natural Earth - Geographic Data Sets
> <http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/naturalearth_overview.html>
>  * OSGeo North Carolina, USA Educational dataset
> <http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/nc_dataset_overview.html>
>  * OpenStreetMap - Sample extract from OpenStreetMap
> <http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/osm_dataset_overview.html>
>
>
> In particular, would the North Carolina dataset suffice?
>
>
> On 12/12/12 22:21, Scott Penrose wrote:
>> On 12/12/2012, at 10:11 PM, Cameron Shorter 
>> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> We currently don't have any applications or data on OSGeo-Live which 
>>> has a licence restricting commercial use (that I'm aware of).
>>>
>>> And as such I'm wary of introducing such a dependency.
>>>
>>> Could you please explain:
>>> 1. What is SRTM?
>> SRTM is the satellite data that all terrain data is taken from. If 
>> you use Terrain data, you are using SRTM data, or derived, which 
>> obviously has the same license. DTED is a common format derived from 
>> SRTM data.
>>
>>> 2. Is it required for the demo?
>> It certainly makes it look nicer - shading of hills etc for terrain, 
>> but technically we could work a way around it.
>>
>>> 3. Is there a work around for not using it?
>> Technically, given enough time, fake random terrain data could be 
>> generated.
>>
>>> 4. Does it follow a current known licence (such as Creative Commons 
>>> or GPL)? If so, what is it?
>> No, like most geo spacial data, the governments that release it tend 
>> to have their own license.
>>
>> By comparison, what other data is provided as examples on the DVD?
>>
>> Scott
>>
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Angelos Tzotsos
Remote Sensing Laboratory
National Technical University of Athens
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