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

[Frederik Ramm]

Anthony,

Anthony wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I certainly didn't read it that way.  The Bing license says you must
> contribute traced data to openstreetmaps.org, but it doesn't say you
> can't also contribute traced data to a fork.

I believe you could also do other things with traced data but that would 
then be subject to the normal license, not the special license they 
granted to OpenStreetMap.

Bye
Frederik

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