[OSM-legal-talk] Fair use?

Eugene Alvin Villar seav80 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 8 17:45:37 BST 2010


On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 2:36 AM, Prado, Renato (R.P.) <rprado at visteon.com> wrote:
> Hello you all.
>
> This is my first message here, please let me know if I am making any
> mistake regarding the use of this mailing list.
>
> After some reading of the license-related pages in the OSM wiki, I still
> cannot figure out whether my intended use is under the terms of use: I
> intend to create a site where several pools would be carried out, and
> the results would be plotted in a way similar to the heatmap example
> over the OSM background.
>
> Some of those pools would be visible only for paying customers and the
> generated reports would feature OSM static images with the pool data
> plotted over.
>
> I read the "How to credit OpenStreetMap" section and am completely fine
> with complying to that, since my main interest (and source of income)
> would be the pool data, the map would be only a viewing and reporting
> aid.
>
> Could you please give me some advice on whether any of this is against
> the OSM license?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Renato

Hello!

Are you planning to just overlay your data over the background map as
a separate and independent layer? If yes, then this would qualify as a
collective work under CC and you just need to attribute OSM in the
suggested way.

Hope this helps.

Eugene (osm:seav)



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