[OSM-legal-talk] Bing - Terms of Use

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:23 PM, 80n <80n80n at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Chris Fleming <me at chrisfleming.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 01/12/10 08:52, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
>>>
>>> Andrew Harvey wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Just to clarify is this
>>>> http://www.microsoft.com/maps/product/terms.html the document
>>>> which contains the license grant?
>>>
>>> No; the document is the one embedded in the OpenGeoData posting
>>> (http://opengeodata.org/microsoft-imagery-details). Like I say I'd
>>> envisage
>>> it might be firmed up a little in the coming weeks.
>>>
>>
>>  It's worth noting that this is more than we've had for the Yahoo
>> imagery....
>
> More what?  More restrictions or more freedoms?
>

I think it's the fact that we have an actual documentation of the
permission to trace. Yahoo's is pretty much just an unwritten/informal
agreement.