[Imports] Facebook's AI-Assisted Road Tracing for OSM

[Christoph Hormann]

On Thursday 16 March 2017, Michael Reichert wrote:
>
> By reading your license
> (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/images/c/cf/FacebookRoadMaskLicense
>.pdf) some questions arose. The whole agreement is really difficult to
> read and I ask myself why you choose to use it instead of a
> well-established open data license.

It is my understanding that these terms apply to those who use the data 
directly.  Those doing the import still need to agree to the 
contributor terms which essentially nullifies large parts of the 
restrictions of this license.

In how far those doing the import can agree to the contributor terms 
without violating their contractual obligation with Facebook is a 
different matter of course.  But since the license explicitly states 
that its purpose is to "license, contribute, or publish Derivative Data 
to OSM in accordance with any applicable OSM terms" this is a fairly 
academic question.

-- 
Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/