On 30 March 2010 13:27, John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com> wrote: > That doesn't make something illegal and google are free to send him a > C&D if they feel up to it, but that's civil contract law.
Ok, so it's not automatically a crime but it's still fair to say it isn't legal if you take obeying the TOS as a requirement which most people do. And if they send that guy a C&D he'll be responsible of ceasing to distribute the tiles as well as repair damage caused (or at least stop damage happening) to Google if they say so, which may include informing all people who downloaded the tiles, all people who downloaded OSM data created by tracing over them, then their customers, etc etc., and if he can't do that then the court decides what he has to do. Cheers _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk