On 1 Nov 2009, at 20:17, Anthony wrote: > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Peteris Krisjanis <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Anyway, to resume all this discussion - PLEASE don't trace from photo >> without permission for OSM, whatever your temptations are. > > Permission from whom, and in what form? Supposedly the Yahoo images > are okay, but 1) Yahoo didn't take the pictures in the first place, > and 2) I haven't verified that Yahoo even gave permission (who signed > the waiver? what indication do we have that they were authorized to > do so? can I see a copy of the waiver? what exactly are the terms?). > > I'm hesitant to push that issue, but hey, if OSM decides to stop > helping people trace from Yahoo maybe someone else will come along > with less silly rules. >
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Yahoo has the information you want about the legalities of Yahoo. Shaun _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
