<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 March 2010 02:36, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:avarab@gmail.com">avarab@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Is it legal to?<br>
<br>
* Use it in JOSM: Yes<br>
* Edit data based on it: Yes<br>
* Upload it to the OSM servers: No<br>
<br>
JOSM has the capability to use any server you want (or none at all),<br>
not all servers are run at *.<a href="http://openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">openstreetmap.org</a>.<br></blockquote><div>I didn't think of that. I know one could save it as .osm and then feed it into a renderer or other converting script.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">But really, don't send people hate mail just because they enable users<br>
to do something non-free with OSM tools. I'm sure the FSF doesn't send<br>
people who write non-free programs with Emacs hate mail :)<br></blockquote><div>I think the comment he has put about hate mail is really bad though, it makes OSM out to be a bad project/community even though it created JOSM. Would it really hurt him to put a notice about copyright to say check out the Google license if you make data from the maps and it is not suitable to upload to OSM.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Hmm, I suppose if you do click the "upload to OSM" button then you need a username & password, at which point you look at what OSM is (and I think a comment about acceptable data is given near registration?). I was feeling the button was too easy to use, because my password is saved and I never get prompted to have an account.</div>
</div><br>-- <br>Gregory<br><a href="mailto:osm@livingwithdragons.com">osm@livingwithdragons.com</a><br><a href="http://www.livingwithdragons.com">http://www.livingwithdragons.com</a><br>