Thanks for sharing this, On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 7:31 PM, Richard Fairhurst <[email protected]> wrote: > The Bing ToUs are a little awkwardly written in places. I'm going to be > talking to their lawyer guy but two things you might query: > > - "online editor" does not exclude JOSM. I've had this confirmed by a guy at > Microsoft, they're using it in the sense of "edits an online resource" > rather than "an app hosted only on a website" > - "non-commercial editor" means, AIUI (haven't confirmed this), they don't > want it in saleable products like the ArcGIS extension. This might mean that > your Bing config string has to sit in a non-GPLed file. Alternatively you > could read "non-commercial editor" as "source code must always be available > for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source > distribution", i.e. it's ok as long as you're not _only_ selling it (this > would accord with a definition elsewhere in the ToU). I honestly don't know. > I'll see if I can get this clarified.
I have highlighted and commented on parts of the current Tou. in my opinion, osm is a commercial editor with a open access platform. http://osmopenlayers.blogspot.com/2010/11/interesting-points-from-bing-bind.html I wonder how this is all going to work out. _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
