On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:38 PM, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/11/13 Anthony <[email protected]>: >> I realize the toilet map is serious, but I was more interested in >> whether or not Google is in fact using the data under CC-BY-SA, and if >> so for what. > > At a guess they'd only be copying the data, not improving upon it so > they can just say there is nothing to share, basically what SteveC > said, they want to suck up all the data they can without needing to > give changes back. > Just copying it to their data center so it can sit on the hard drive doing nothing? I'm mainly interested in whether or not their lawyers think they can do a mashup using CC-BY-SA data plus say proprietary aerial imagery, without releasing the aerial imagery under CC-BY-SA. I'm under the impression that the answer to that is "no". Even moreso if "proprietary aerial imagery" is changed to say "proprietary street map data".
I'm also under the impression that the ODbL allows this, which would mean they effectively *can* improve on the work without releasing the improvements under a free license, they just have to put the improvements in a separate layer. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
