Based on this, it would seem to me that if you keep the ESRI data
separate and give it away, that's non-commercial use and you're ok.
Allan
On Thursday 2002-01-31 at 08:58:05(+0100) Benoit V=E9ler wrote:
> Hello to all,
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> and thanks very much for your replies to my question about vmap=
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> and dcw copyrights. To resume these replies, it appears that actually on=
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> Vmap0 is free of copyright, DCW being copyrighted by Esri.
> The only drawback is that a part of Vmap0 is also copyrighted b=
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> Esri, the boundaries layers (and particularly the regional boundaries=20
> layers). See the text below, which is contained inside the readme1 file=
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> that you can find inside the v0eur repertory.
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> I have found two other sources for free world data :
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> http://www.iscgm.org (for non profit organizations)
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> http://www.intramap.co.nz/atlas/freeworldmaps.html (I haven't=
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> checked, but according to the adress, it should be quite interesting).
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> Thanks for all,
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> Ben.
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