On 30 Jun 2008, at 14:34, P Kishor wrote: > Why is this creating such a storm in the proverbial teacup? From the > MapMaker TOS -- > "By submitting User Submissions to the Service, you give Google a > perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive > license to " > > See the non-exclusive part. You give Google a license, but you retain > your copyright to do whatever you want to. You can turn around and > give it OSM as well, or sell it Yahoo or Microsoft or whoever your > preferred map making overlords are. What's the big deal?
Yeah what's the big deal? So... where can I download all my data and load it in to OSM then? And, er, does this also give me rights to derive for non-exclusive use also? The non-exclusive part may be just for those jurisdictions which treat copyright as a moral right and thus it has to be non-exclusive. But I'm sure if you mail them they'll reply with an open an honest answer. > Unless I am missing something, I see absolutely no problem. In any You're missing Google trampling on an open community again after selling the dream of doing no evil. I mean, personally I've been expecting it for a while and I have no illusions of the motivation for this stuff, but a lot of people have a hope of higher purpose that, y'know, they'd at least bother talking to us first. But that's not their modus operandi. Best Steve _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
