[OSM-legal-talk] Using JOSM + Yahoo Maps Aerial Imagery for Public Domain Release

Sunburned Surveyor sunburned.surveyor at gmail.com
Sat Oct 11 00:38:05 BST 2008


Thanks for the response Frederick.

I wonder why release of data under the public domain might make Yahoo
uneasy. It might actually make them less uneasy, since they could then
do what they wanted with the data that was produced.

Landon

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sunburned Surveyor wrote:
>> Could you map ways using JOSM and Yahoo aerial photography, export the
>> ways for a data set released under the public domain, and then import
>> into OSM? Or does the interpretation of the Yahoo Maps terms-of-use
>> require the data created with the aerial imagery to be released only
>> under the OSM license?
>
> I believe that there is no special OSM agreement with Yahoo. Rather,
> Yahoo have carefully evaluated their existing terms of use and said to
> us that what we want to do is ok according to these terms.
>
> Since I do not believe that these terms contain any provision about the
> type of license you want to use derived data under, I guess it should be
> possible to create any data that way.
>
> Then again, we wouldn't want Yahoo to get all scared and say "if that is
> the case then we'd rather re-read our terms again..."
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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