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| Subject: | RE: GISList: copyrights vmap1 |
| Date: |
06/10/2002 07:58:39 AM |
| From: |
Dimitri Rotow |
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> I would like to know what are the copyright of vmap1,
> especially for
> european countries ?...
If you download or acquire VMAP1 from the source, www.nima.mil, there is
absolutely no copyright at all. Under US law it is entirely in the public
domain. You can do with it whatever you want without any permission from
anyone.
You can, for example, use Manifold (or other GIS that can read VPF level 1
format) to read the VMAP1 VPF and save it out to ESRI .shp files and sell it
as "The Veler Digital World Atlas" for $1000 a DVD without any need to
credit anyone.
If the European country in question follows the convention on copyrights
that most Western nations do, it is supposed to honor that public domain
status.
Cheers,
Dimitri
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