On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:14 AM, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7 April 2011 10:06, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir <[email protected]> wrote: >> What happened to NearMap? > > Nearmap have refused to allow data derived from their imagery to be > used without guarantee of attribution and share-a-like in a future > license, or having a guarantee that such data would be removed if > relicensing occurs. >
Surely that's a simple procedural matter then (CT 1.2.4 already has the "we reserve the right to delete your content for whatever reason"), especially when changes through the NearMap editor can be tagged appropriately automatically. That would be the same situation we're in now; every major licence change has to be a fork of the old project and data owners can stop contributing in the future... that doesn't affect the past so end users can be assured the data is appropriately licensed. If LWG can negotiate special conditions (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/images/d/d8/Bing_license.pdf) with Bing, surely they can work something out with NearMap. I wouldn't want to get into a situation where you have to negotiate with every service/data provider (that's the point of open data licencing!) but a company that covers more area than some european countries to the community for free deserves a fair go. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
