Hi all
As promised, with apologies for the delay, here is the statement from
NearMap regarding submission of derived works of our PhotoMaps to OSM.
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Nearmap.com wishes to clarify the extent to which OpenStreetMap (OSM) may
use additions or edits to its street maps which are derived from nearma
My understanding is that Nearmap wish all contributions to OSM, by any
mapper who has agreed to the CT, derived from their imagery (before the 17th
June 2011) to be able to be relicenced by OSMF under any licence it (OSMF)
chooses at any time.
However I also can't see exactly how the published stat
Yes Steve - you're right.
The "For Clarity" paragraph basically says that contributions from a mapper
who hadn't accepted the CT and were derived from Nearmap prior to June 17th
2011 can stay in the data base and do not have to be deleted.
They give no time limit or OSM-licence limitations on thi
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Ben Last wrote:
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> Hi all
> As promised, with apologies for the delay, here is the statement from NearMap
> regarding submission of derived works of our PhotoMaps to OSM.
Dear Ben,
Thank you for providing this clear statement, for NearMap's
contributions to the
2011/6/15 Ben Last
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> All such additions or edits submitted to OSM prior to 17 June 2011 may be
> held and continue to be used by OSM under the terms in place between OSM and
> the individual which submitted the addition or edit at the relevant time.
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I absolutely do not want
On 16 June 2011 14:48, Francis Davey wrote:
That it was drafted, carefully, by a lawyer I do not doubt. But lawyers
draft things on instruction to achieve particular goals. My understanding
from Ben's comment is that one of the goals of nearmap is that derived works
are distributed only under CC-
2011/6/17 Ben Last :
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> The goal of that statement was to allow any contributions that have been
> derived from our PhotoMaps under our current licence (which is what imposes
> the CC-BY-SA redistribution condition) can remain in the OSM db. Not being
> a lawyer, I'm not going to comment on how t
