[OSM-legal-talk] Someone already had a look at the Bing Terms of Use?

[Andrew Harvey]

I feel that it is not safe at this point. I have raised my concerns in
this thread http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2010-December/005299.html

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Manuel Reimer
<Manuel.Spam at nurfuerspam.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> is it secure to use Bing? Any license risks? Could Microsoft, at some day,
> just force us to remove everything with "source=Bing" on it? Am I forced to
> have this "source" tag there? Should stuff, taken from Bing, be verified via
> GPS track at some time to get the data secure?
>
> One risk, which definetly exists, is that Microsoft rejects their offer at
> some time, so if there is no risk in using the data, I would start to use it
> to complete several things in my area (buildings, landuse, ....) as long as
> the data is still available for OSM.
>
> Yours
>
> Manuel
>
>
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