> Hi, > > because of disagreeing user Pavel I stumbled over the DIBAVOD import > today. > Although the google translation seemed to show that the DIBAVOD data > seems quite freely licensed it would be nice to have an exact > declaration under which conditions and/or which license the Data was > donated. > > It would be kind to add a regarding line here: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue > > Best regards > Thomas > (malenki)

> malenki wrote: > > Hi, > > > > because of disagreeing user Pavel I stumbled over the DIBAVOD import > > today. > > Although the google translation seemed to show that the DIBAVOD data > > seems quite freely licensed it would be nice to have an exact > > declaration under which conditions and/or which license the Data was > > donated. > > > > It would be kind to add a regarding line here: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue > > > > Best regards > > Thomas > > (malenki) > > Hello, > > as far as I know the license is not clearly stated on the dibavod > webpage. Our czech wiki page with free datasources [1] states that it's > free (as cost) and without any license restrictions - personally > confirmed by the head of GIS department. I'm not sure who exactly > checked this, but we could probably dig this up in the talk-cz archive. > > I'll add this item to the catalogue. > > Best regards, > Petr Morávek aka Xificurk > > [1] > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Czech_Republic/freemap#Vodstvo_.28DIBAVOD.29 >

> AFAIK DIVABOD is by Czech law (Copyright Act & Water Act) a official > or authoritative work (Amtswerk auf Deutsch) and thus it's not in > favour with any kind of copyright protection, besides of EU-citizen > public free access right to all hydrography informations embodied in > INSPIRE directive.