[OSM-legal-talk] Usage of Planet Labs NICFI imagery

[Mateusz Konieczny]

"all of which must be Non-Commercial Use"

I am not a lawyer, but it seems clearly incompatible with OSM.
OSM data must allowing also commercial use.

If there are edits made using it, likely such edits should be reverted.

Maybe they would grant permission to use specifically for OSM mapping?
But they may have own legal obligations from owner of imagery making it impossible.

Note also final part, which allows Planet Labs Germany Gmbh to perform audit of use of
imagery - at your cost
("shall have the right to require You to reimburse Planet for the costs of such audit")
Feb 18, 2022, 17:34 by matheus.gomes03 at hotmail.com:

> Hey guys,
>
> Since October 2020, Norway through its NICFI program is sponsoring high resolution imagery from Planet Labs in the tropics. With this, virtually anyone can have access to these imagery, which is aimed to be used for fighting deforestation (among other goals).
>
> I couldn't find any info regarding this and OSM, so that's why I'm asking it here.
>
> On their page, it seems that data is kinda freely available [1], but then I wanted to check with you more expert guys if we can use on OSM. It doesn't seem they have a standard license (such as CC-BY os ODbL), but they do provide a document with the license of that imagery [2].
>
> On OSM Contributors wiki page I found this permission: "> Planet Labs Inc. through their Open Data Portal", but I couldn't find more information. Reading the license, the 'Sharing' section made me unsure about the usage on OSM.
>
> What do you guys think? Are we allowed to use, or should we ask for a waiver? (Or had anyone already contacted them and we received a negative answer?)
>
> [1] > https://www.planet.com/nicfi/#support-resources
> [2] > https://assets.planet.com/docs/Planet_ParticipantLicenseAgreement_NICFI.pdf
>
>
> Best regards,
> Matheus
> (matheusgomesms)
>

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