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

80n 80n80n at gmail.com
Sun Dec 19 13:32:39 GMT 2010


On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:

> On 19/12/10 10:30, Andrew Harvey wrote:
>
>>
>> Where is this direct statement from Microsoft that says derived
>> information from aerial imagery delivered through their map api can be
>> licensed under a CT compatible license?
>>
>
> Microsoft have directly stated that Bing imagery may be used to update OSM.
>
> The licence PDF states:
>
> "Any updates you make to the OpenStreetMap map via the
> Application (even if not published to third parties) must be contributed
> back to openstreetmaps.org."
>

"openstreetmaps.org" [sic]
It's absolutely clear that if they don't even know the proper domain name
for OpenStreetMap and didn't even spell check the document (Imagerty) that
they have taken little care over this.

I've not seen this license published on a Microsoft/Bing owned web-site so
any cautious person would be prudent to doubt even the authenticity of this
text.

Personally I'm sure it's a genuine attempt by Bing to license something to
OSM.  I think they are trying to license the right for some applications to
access their imagery api, with the additional constraints that any resulting
edits are contributed to OSM.

The agreement makes no observation or comment about the licenses involved
(CC, ODbL, CT, DbCL) and would have to be considered a separate matter.  In
other words, this license makes no grants of rights to publish derived works
under any particular license, over and above what was already there.  If we
couldn't do it before, we can't do it now, but that also implies that if we
can do it now we were also allowed to do it before, although we may not have
had the right to use their API and/or an application to do that.



>
> Agreeing to the CTs is a condition of doing so.
>
> - Rob.
>
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