[OSM-legal-talk] feedback requested

[Simon Poole]

Am 21.12.2011 14:50, schrieb Ed Avis:
> Simon Poole<simon at ...>  writes:
>
>> In general we have assumed that for example tracing from aerial imagery
>> and similar sources does not create a derived work in which the creator
>> of the imagery has rights (not that I necessarily agree with that). The
>> requirement has always been that we have had permission to trace at the
>> point in time that the tracing happened
> Right - we require permission.  So for example tracing from Google Maps is not
> allowed, even if the legal theory about not creating a derived work turns out
> to be correct.
>
> I contend that mappers' contributions would need to be treated no different to
> any other external data source.  If we have permission, we can use them, if not,
> we can't.  If one mapper illegitimately adjusted the position of a way by
> using Google Earth as a backdrop, but then a second mapper moved the position
> of the nodes some more, normal OSM practice would still be to delete the tainted
> data.
>
So you contend that there was no permission to use positional 
information entered in the DB by other mappers to interpolate prior to 
the current CTs (obviously this is not covered by CC-by-SA 2.0)?

Simon