Hi, Gustav Foseid wrote: > To me it seems that OS is broadening it's business into the "seriously > overstating rights" trade...
It seems to me that in this situation, the bad guys are not the OS but Google. Google has recently modified their terms of use, making clear that they automatically have rights to any data you display on top of Google: "11.1 Content License. (a) You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Your Content. By submitting, posting or displaying Your Content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute Your Content." This means that if someone displays OS data on top of Google, he must also be entitled to grant the requested license to Google. All OS are doing is clarifying that a normal OS customer will probably *not* have the right to grant others (Google) a "perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free" license. This is true for OSM as well; my reading is that we must not display OSM data (say, a KML file we have generated from our data) on top of a Google map, because the above clause would then give Google rights to our data which are incompatible with CC-BY-SA. In conclusion, if someone says the OS is "reinforcing its stranglehold", then the CC-BY-SA license forces us to do the same... Bye Frederik _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
