Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Fwd: using OSM in our commercial application

2012-05-16 Thread Janko Mihelić
What if I am selling an application that uses OSM tiles for background, and users of the application can put their data over the background. So, I am distributing the application with the osm tiles, but users aren't distributing their data. Does this mean that they can do that, until they decide t

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] MAPS.ME combining OSM data and non-OSM data?

2016-07-08 Thread Janko Mihelić
Maps.me made an announcement in the last update that they are using Booking.com data to show hotels and allow reserving hotel rooms from within the app. I doubt Booking.com released their data with a permissive license. Janko Mihelić pet, 8. srp 2016. u 14:54 Andrew Harvey napisao je

[OSM-legal-talk] Using closed sources to spot errors (was: [Tagging] Routing in Liège (consulting Michelin))

2016-09-21 Thread Janko Mihelić
sri, 21. ruj 2016. u 08:54 joost schouppe napisao je: > > Using copyrighted material to spot errors in OSM is still copyright > violation (well, a specialist in copyright should confirm that). > This is an interesting case. I think we are allowed to spot errors using closed sources, but we can n

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Using closed sources to spot errors (was: [Tagging] Routing in Liège (consulting Michelin))

2016-09-21 Thread Janko Mihelić
sri, 21. ruj 2016. u 10:42 Martin Koppenhoefer napisao je: > > I am not sure if publishing the differences would be ok, but looking at > them to decide where to survey is ok I think. > This service would be a personal tool for people to use, so no publishing. Although you could share the link. I