On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Shaun McDonald <sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk> wrote: > > On 1 Nov 2009, at 20:17, Anthony wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Peteris Krisjanis <pec...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Anyway, to resume all this discussion - PLEASE don't trace from photo >>> without permission for OSM, whatever your temptations are. >> >> Permission from whom, and in what form? Supposedly the Yahoo images >> are okay, but 1) Yahoo didn't take the pictures in the first place, >> and 2) I haven't verified that Yahoo even gave permission (who signed >> the waiver? what indication do we have that they were authorized to >> do so? can I see a copy of the waiver? what exactly are the terms?). >> >> I'm hesitant to push that issue, but hey, if OSM decides to stop >> helping people trace from Yahoo maybe someone else will come along >> with less silly rules. >> > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Yahoo has the information you want about > the legalities of Yahoo.
The answer being: there is no waiver, and there is no copyright license. If tracing Google maps is copyright infringement, so is tracing Yahoo maps. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
