2009/9/10 David Muir Sharnoff <[email protected]>: > Has anyone set a letter to Google's legal department asking for > clarification or permission?
I haven't asked their legal department, but Ed Parsons said in an email yesterday (not sure if my post[1] about it got through to the list?) that it's ok to check our facts, but anything more than that (extracting/mass extracting of data) is not likely to be compliant with their license agreement. As I see it, if their license agreement prevents us doing it, then it's already ruled out, and it's not a question of what copyright or database law says at that point. If we want to be able to extract data as well then I'm pretty sure we'd need a license to do so. [1] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-September/041758.html Cheers, Dan -- Dan Karran [email protected] www.dankarran.com _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
