Frederik Ramm wrote: > 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...
Interesting, I had never thought about this, but it does make sense. So google effectively claims gratis usage right to all "collective works" displayed using the Gmaps api?! spaetz _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
