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

Anthony osm at inbox.org
Wed Dec 22 14:42:43 GMT 2010


>> > 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.
> After it has been contributed to openstreetmap.org, one can get it from openstreetmap.org(dump maybe) under it's then license. (is my interpretation)

So I need permission from OSM to redistribute my own contributions?

This interpretation (or at least, the acceptance of it as something
OSM would want to do) is truly evil.  I only wonder how widespread it
is among OSM contributors.  I hope in good faith that it is held by
very few.



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