[OSM-legal-talk] Someone already had a look at theBing TermsofUse?

[Frederik Ramm]

Phillip,

On 12/21/10 16:43, Barnett, Phillip wrote:
> So people who have not (yet) accepted the CTs can't use Bing? Is that really the case?

I think Rob was slightly wrong when he said:

> We do not have permission from Bing to licence the data differently
> anywhere else. And contributions to OSM should be under the CTs.

We do indeed have permission from Bing to trace the data and incorporate 
it in OSM, whatever OSM's license, and independent of the CT. (This 
means they put quite some trust in us not doing stupid things because if 
OSM were to change its license to the dreaded "everything belongs to 
Frederik" license then so would the data traced from Bing until that time.)

This rule means that everything that is traced from Bing before OSM 
stops publishing under CC-BY-SA will be available to the world, forever, 
under CC-BY-SA. But a hypothetical CC-BY-SA fork would not be allowed to 
accept newly traced data after the license change.

Bye
Frederik