[OSM-legal-talk] Relicensing, PD, leverage and petitions

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

John Smith wrote:
> people deriving from say Yahoo, is that information allowed to become PD?

Yes. Contrary to popular belief, Yahoo has never struck any special 
agreement with OSM. They have evaluated their own terms of service and 
concluded that tracing off their imagery is generally legal - not "legal 
specifically for OSM and only if the license is X".

Bye
Frederik

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