[OSM-legal-talk] Grant for usage of a google mapmaper users data to me

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

Hi there,
I am in discussion with a google mapmaker user to relicense his work to me.
here is my mail,
please correct me when I am wrong, that he as an author still owns his
data and can license it to me.
thanks,
mike
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Hi there,
all you have to do do is make your work that you own available to me
to put into OSM.

You give google all the rights to your data, you get no rights from them.
But you still own all your data!

"By submitting User Submissions to the Service, you give Google a
perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive
license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly
perform, publicly display, distribute, and create derivative works of
the User Submission. "

That means you give google full access to your data.

 "You confirm and warrant to Google that you own or have all of the
necessary rights or permissions to grant this license. You also grant
to end users of Google services the right to access and use, including
the right to edit, the User Submissions as permitted under the
applicable Google terms of service."

That means you own all your data. You can still do what you want with
your data, like grant me license to use your data in OSM.

http://www.google.com/mapmaker/intl/en_ALL/mapfiles/s/terms_mapmaker.html