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

[andrzej zaborowski]

On 22 December 2010 15:18, Niklas Cholmkvist <towardsoss at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 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)
> --

Well, sure, but the more interesting question is can it be distributed
under other licenses outside of OSM, provided that it is contributed
to OSM as well.  By my reading of the license, yes, it can, and it's
cool of Microsoft to decide it this way.  But I may be misinterpreting
the license (or the license is vague) as this has happened to me
before.

Cheers