[OSM-legal-talk] Voluntary re-licensing begins

[Pierre-Alain Dorange]

Cartinus <cartinus at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Yahoo aerial imagery is supplied under some terms (sorry too lazy to look them
> up right now). Sometime in the past someone(s) from within the OSM project
> asked them if tracing from those images to make a map was possible within
> those terms. They answered: Yes, this is possible.
> 
> Now can somebody explain to me why this would not be explicit permission?

I think you could find your answer on the wiki :
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Yahoo#Legalities>

Here, in France, one of the admin office that handle "cadastre" give
OSM-Fr the right to use they map layer the same way and it's legal and
got an explicit permission too :
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Cadastre_Français/Condit
ions_d%27utilisation>
(sorry, only in french)

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Pierre-Alain Dorange