On 30 March 2010 14:10, andrzej zaborowski <balr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 30 March 2010 13:27, John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com> wrote: >> That doesn't make something illegal and google are free to send him a >> C&D if they feel up to it, but that's civil contract law. > > Ok, so it's not automatically a crime but it's still fair to say it > isn't legal if you take obeying the TOS as a requirement which most > people do. And if they send that guy a C&D he'll be responsible of > ceasing to distribute the tiles as well as repair damage caused (or at > least stop damage happening) to Google if they say so, which may > include informing all people who downloaded the tiles, all people who > downloaded OSM data created by tracing over them, then their > customers, etc etc., and if he can't do that then the court decides > what he has to do.
Oops, he's not redistributing the tiles, I misunderstood GoogleWMS as an actual WMS he hosts... _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
