On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Nick Hocking <nick.hock...@gmail.com> wrote: > PS - tomorrow I will find out all the ways in Canberra that I had to fix > using nearmap, and replace them using compliant Bing imagery"
Last time I checked the licences, NearMap says that information derived from their images may (and may only) be released under CC-BY-SA; Bing on the other hand only say that we can view their imagery in an OSM editor. They do not explicitly disclaim any copyright on derived works (like tracing). Sure they say " Any updates you make to the OpenStreetMap map via the Application (even if not published to third parties) must be contributed back to openstreetmaps.org."* but this says nothing about deriving information from the actual imagery, merely a user making regular submissions to OSM. Now Microsoft may think that tracing isn't a derived work and as such you can trace copyrighted imagery without a license, but unless they actually state this, and have the rights to the imagery, I don't think we should allow any Bing tracing in OSM. *btw, this isn't in their http://www.microsoft.com/maps/product/terms.html only in this special unverified http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Bing_license.pdf _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
