[OSM-legal-talk] Nearmap vs CTs: any progress?

[Ben Last]

It's a summary<http://www.google.com.au/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=define:+summary>,
which means that it omits some of the detail.  The actual licence is at
http://www.nearmap.com/products/community-licence
<http://www.nearmap.com/products/community-licence>Regards
Ben

On 17 November 2010 01:56, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Ben Last <ben.last at nearmap.com> wrote:
> > In order to derive data from nearmap.com PhotoMaps, you must agree to
> our
> > community licence, which says:
> > "If you derive information from observing our PhotoMaps, and include that
> > information in a work, you will own that work, and may distribute it to
> > others under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike
> (CC-BY-SA) licence."
> >  In other words, you're constrained in what you can do with that derived
> > work.
>
> What you quote is a summary of the license terms.  What the actual
> license terms say is that: "you may only distribute Derived Works to
> others on the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike
> (CC-BY-SA) licence (and you may use any version of that licence you
> wish, whether localised for a particular country or not)"
>
> The inclusion of that word "only" in the actual license terms (as
> opposed to the summary), makes all the difference in the world.
>
> I'd suggest you get your lawyers to add the word "only" to the summary
> you just quoted, after "may" and before "distribute", as the summary
> is very misleading otherwise.
>
> Alternatively, you could take the word "only" out of the actual
> license terms, in which case Nearmap's license terms and CT 1.2 might
> very well be compatible.
>
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Ben Last
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