Francis Davey wrote: > There's a lot of loose talk and paranoia about this sort of thing.
Sure, and I think others have taken legal advice which disagrees with yours. No-one has the money to actually see if it's true in court. And so freethepostcode, and OSM, and etc. will not take such derived data, just in case. OSM FAQ on the issue is at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FAQ#Why_don.27t_you_just_use_Google_Maps.2Fwhoever_for_your_data.3F They're even more not sure about aerial photos - Yahoo! have said OpenStreetMap can use theirs, and they're currently asking Google to make the same declaration. ATB, Matthew > OSM-legal-talk is replete with it. Using a work in which there is > copyright to generate another work is not necessarily an infringement > of the original work, as Michael Baigent found out. > _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
