[Freegis-list] vmap0 copyright

[Allan Doyle]

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 Véler wrote:
 > Hello to all,
 > 
 >          and thanks very much for your replies to my question about vmap0 
 > and dcw copyrights. To resume these replies, it appears that actually only 
 > Vmap0 is free of copyright, DCW being copyrighted by Esri.
 >          The only drawback is that a part of Vmap0 is also copyrighted by 
 > Esri, the boundaries layers (and particularly the regional boundaries 
 > layers). See the text below, which is contained inside the readme1 file 
 > that you can find inside the v0eur repertory.
 > 
 >          I have found two other sources for free world data :
 > 
 >          http://www.iscgm.org (for non profit organizations)
 > 
 >          http://www.intramap.co.nz/atlas/freeworldmaps.html (I haven't 
 > checked, but according to the adress, it should be quite interesting).
 > 
 >          Thanks for all,
 > 
 >          Ben.
 > 
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