[OSM-legal-talk] Imagery CC-BY-NC 4.0 + OSM Specific allowance
Christoph Hormann
chris_hormann at gmx.de
Sat Jan 21 07:43:26 UTC 2017
On Saturday 21 January 2017, Blake Girardot HOT/OSM wrote:
>
> We are working with an imagery provider who is going to release some
> of their imagery under cc-by-nc 4.0, and with a specific allowance
> for it to be used for digitizing into OSM.
Our general aim should be to get image providers to release their
imagery as open data. If that fails we can of course also use images
with any other license if this license specifically allows the use in
OSM.
However care should be taken that the mapper is in a solid situation
when using the data independent of the question if his/her work
actually makes it into the main OSM database. In the past this has
often been a problem with specific permissions for restricted access
data. License terms or terms of use of a service should not require
mappers to take additional legal risks.
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Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/
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