[OSM-legal-talk] some interesting points from the bing license

[Lennard]

On 3-12-2010 17:23, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:

> Then you must have the same objection to tracing from Yahoo's imagery.
> Unlike Bing, there is no specific agreement between Yahoo and OSM.
> Yahoo only agreed that the act of tracing from the satellite imagery
> that they host and putting the traced data under any license (and not
> specifically CC-BY-SA 2.0) does not violate Yahoo Maps' terms of
> service, which contains similar language to Bing's terms of use. Yet
> here we are tracing from Yahoo for years already.

A few months ago, on a local list, I argued that we could already start 
tracing from Bing, as it was comparable to Yahoo and there were no 
specific ToU restrictions as with Google. IANAL and so, so it never got 
anywhere. It's brilliant that we now officially have the permission to 
do so. :)

-- 
Lennard