Hi, Sunburned Surveyor wrote: > I wonder why release of data under the public domain might make Yahoo > uneasy. It might actually make them less uneasy, since they could then > do what they wanted with the data that was produced.
My hunch is that they *might* just have overstepped (or at least: very liberally interpreted) their own rights vis a vis the people they buy their aerial imagery from. - Ed Parsons once said that Google had to pay extra for "traceable" aerial imagery as the "normal" licenses would not have been suitable for using the material in an application like MapMaker. If none of us makes too much noise then we'll all get away with it - the people from whom Yahoo license their imagery might well know what we're doing but as long as it is limited to OSM they might not care too much as they can still sell their premium "traceable" licenses to other people. Just a hunch though, might be completely off. Mikel Maron is the guy who had the talks with Yahoo so he's probably best suited to give you details. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
