On 2012-03-29 at 11:06:38 +0200, Jochen Topf wrote: > The storage part is not true any more. Bing used OSM data to mask out military > areas in Germany, so the Bing images are now automatically CC-BY-SA.
No, they are not. If they did that (I haven't followed the related threads and I don't know exactly what happened) they would be in violation of our copyright. One of the way the could stop that violation would be to release the images under CC-BY-SA, another just as legitimate would be to stop distributing them. Having a license applying in an automatic way would not make sense: consider the case of product X owned by A and given under a restrictive license to B (the usual case with areal pics, btw); if B used X together with CC-BY-SA (or GPL) licensed product Y, A would find their product released under another license 1. against their will, 2. through no fault of their own. -- Elena ``of Valhalla''
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