User:D-ECHO/Canada Land Cover
The Government of Canada publishes a Landsat-based vector landcover product on their Open Government website. The following guide explains how to use this data to make custom scenery for FlightGear.
License Note
| Note Please note that the author of this guide is no law professional and thus the following is only a subjective interpretation of the information. |
The website states that the data is available under the Open Government License - Canada, available here. This license, in my interpretation, allows to use the data for a scenery later released under the GPL v2+, as long as you Acknowledge the source of the Information by including any attribution statement specified by the Information Provider(s) and, where possible, provide a link to this licence.[1]. Furthermore, it states that the statement Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. shall be used, when there is no specific attribution statement given.[2]. Given that I couldn't find any specific attribution statement on the product's website, I use the following statement in the scenery's README.md files in order to comply with the license requirements:
Following sources have been used:
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* Landcover Data from Canadian Land Cover, Circa 2000 (Vector) - GeoBase Series, 1996-2005
available under: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/97126362-5a85-4fe0-9dc2-915464cfdbb7
released under the Open Government License - Canada (https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.