Sebastian Spaeth wrote: > 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?!
And I think at one stage - anything submitted via chrome? Not sure THAT condition on the chrome licence has been removed but it certainly stops me from even downloading it ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
