Rajan + list, This one is from written with my CloudMade keyboard ;-)
Just to be clear the "Personal Use" parts of the CloudMade T&Cs refer to the site contents and use of the website - cloudmade.com, rather than any of the APIs and web service. You, and everyone else are welcome to use CloudMade's APIs, web services and the documentation provided on the site in personal, public or business uses. Which CloudMade libraries are you particularly interested in using? The Ruby, Python and Java libs are all open source (L-GPL) and we're happy to support anyone who'd like to develop libraries in other languages. Libraries T&Cs (L-GPL) - http://www.cloudmade.com/products/libraries_apis/terms_of_use Website T&Cs - http://cloudmade.com/terms_conditions Web Maps Lite (Jacascript library) T&Cs - http://developers.cloudmade.com/projects/web-maps-lite/terms Hope this clarifies things for you. Nick On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > Hi, > > rajan vaish wrote: > > Hi,I am working on my proposal for GSoC'09 right now and for the routing > > implementation tasks ,I intend to use Libraries/APIs of CloudMade ( > > http://developers.cloudmade.com/ ) which works on OSM as well.Am I > allowed > > to use the same ? > > I don't see why not. > > It is true that CloudMade say you may use their site "solely for your > personal use", whereas Google say any software you produce must be > licensed under an OSI approved license (i.e. you cannot produce software > licensed as "only for personal use"). > > But you can simply pass on this restriction to the users of your > software: The software you make is free for use/inspection/modification > by anybody as per the OSI compliant license you choose, but if people > then use your software to access the CloudMade site then they may only > do so for their personal use. > > As you correctly point out, the situation is similar to GSoc students > writing software that interacts with Google Maps. > > Whether or not the OSM project accepts and endorses a proposal for a > GSoC project that will only work using the services of CloudMade (which > are outside the control of the OSM project) is of course another matter, > but I guess if it is something seriously cool then nobody will ask many > questions. > > I believe that CloudMade used to have a developer sponsorship programme > of their own where they handed out grants for the development of > OSM-related software, so that might be another avenue for you to follow > up (but you should really ask them directly as it has been a while since > this was last mentioned). > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- -- Nick Black twitter.com/nick_b
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