On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 20:27, Serge Wroclawski <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Nichlas Hummelsberger > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I wanted to point out that using Bing imagery outside the context of > > OSM is not allowed by the license terms of the Bing service. > > > > For example, if you wanted to use the traced data for another project, > > that wouldn't be allowed. > > > > - Serge > > > > I sincerely cannot believe that it is true, that ways/buildings traced > while > > using bing imagery would not be under the normal OSM license, and > therefore > > usable for whatever legal purpose outside of OSM. There would be no point > in > > making data that was forever locked inside OSM. > > Nichlas, > > I'm always glad to have a license discussion, especially in regards to > information for new people. > > Let me clarify my statement now. > > It's my understanding that the Bing imagery is a donation to the OSM > project. The raw imagery belongs to Bing and is under their Terms of > Use. OSM has been given access to this imagery for use by the project > for tracing. > > This imagery itself is not part of the OSM project, and is not > available for tracing by other projects. > > Data derived from this imagery is available from OSM under the OSM license. > > - Serge > > Then i think we agree :-)
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