[OSM-legal-talk] Is this click through agreement compatible with OSM?

Steve Bennett stevagewp at gmail.com
Sat Dec 11 12:27:53 GMT 2010


On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Gregory Arenius <gregory at arenius.com> wrote:
> city changed the click through to address those problems.  The agreement is
> located here: http://gispub02.sfgov.org/website/sfshare/index2.asp.

See this clause:
>These Terms of Use do not grant You any title or right to any such intellectual property rights that the City or others may have in the GIS Data.

Translation: "You don't own it."

Now see this clause:
>You agree to only add Contents for which You are the copyright holder

Translation: "You don't own it, you can't add it."

(I'm glad this isn't just about Nearmap now.)

Steve



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