[Legal-general] [OSM-talk] Ordnance Survey tries to reinforce its stranglehold over "derived" geographic data in the UK

[Sebastian Spaeth]

Frederik Ramm wrote:
> All OS are doing is clarifying that a normal OS customer will probably 
> *not* have the right to grant others (Google) a "perpetual, irrevocable, 
> worldwide, royalty-free" license.
> 
> This is true for OSM as well; my reading is that we must not display OSM 
> data (say, a KML file we have generated from our data) on top of a 
> Google map, because the above clause would then give Google rights to 
> our data which are incompatible with CC-BY-SA.
> 
> In conclusion, if someone says the OS is "reinforcing its stranglehold", 
> then the CC-BY-SA license forces us to do the same...

Interesting, I had never thought about this, but it does make sense.

So google effectively claims gratis usage right to all "collective
works" displayed using the Gmaps api?!

spaetz