Re: VMap0

Searching the archives of this list it seems that this has been
discussed before
(http://www.intevation.de/pipermail/freegis-list/2002-January/000743.html).
    However it still isn't clear to me either.


jeff




Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> I'm downloading vmap0, however the licence is very problematic,
> especially since it doesn't seem to be easy to separate non-clean parts.
> 
> How big are parts claimed by ESRI ?
> How can I get rid of them ?
> Have anyone done so already ?
> Is anyone distributing vmap0 with ESRI parts removed (and
> optionally replaced by something copyright-clean) ?
> If not, should we do so ?
> If we're going to distribute patched version,
> should we also convert it to some nicer format ?
> 
> 
> 
>>From the readme1.txt:
> 
> ESRI DATA LICENSE AGREEMENT
> 
>         This ESRI Data License Agreement (referred to here after as the
> "Agreement") is between you (the "Licensee") and Environmental Systems
> Research Institute, Inc. ("ESRI"), a corporation, with its principal
> place of business at 380 New York Street, Redlands, California, 92373-
> 8100, United States of America.
> 
> 
> APPLICABILITY
> 
>         This Agreement ONLY applies to those data in Vmap Level 0
> edition 5.0 supplied by ESRI.  Certain features in the Boundaries
> Coverage and the Reference Library contain intellectual property of
> ESRI and its licensors.  These features are the Boundaries Coverage
> (bnd) edge features representing administrative unit boundaries that
> have an FACC code (f_code) of FA000 and an attribute value of 26 in the
> USE field.  Also included are Boundary face features with an FACC code
> (f_code) of FA001 and an administrative unit name present in the NAM
> field.  Within the Reference Library (rference) the Library Reference
> (libref), Place Name (placenam), and Political Boundary (polbnd) Coverages
> also contain intellectual property of ESRI.  The above described features
> are referred to here after as the "Data".
> 
> [...]
> 
> GRANT OF LICENSE
> 
>         ESRI grants to Licensee a personal and nonexclusive license to
> use, copy, reproduce, prepared derivative works, redistribute, and
> retransmit the Data for any internal or noncommercial purposes so long
> as the metadata and license agreement files accompany any redistribution
> of the Data in digital format.
> 
> [...]
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