[OSM-legal-talk] What is the license of tiles at home screenshots?

Mateusz Konieczny matkoniecz at tutanota.com
Mon Jan 31 16:33:18 UTC 2022




Jan 31, 2022, 17:15 by dieterdreist at gmail.com:

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> Am Mo., 31. Jan. 2022 um 15:03 Uhr schrieb Simon Poole <> simon at poole.ch> >:
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>> It really depends on if it is data that is from a mapper that      agreed to the Contributor Terms or not (the CTs do work      retroactively).
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>> Pre-contributor terms the situation is rather unclear as there      are multiple way of reading the single sentence contributors had      to agree to before the introduction of the CTs.
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> so some tiles would be cc-by-sa 2.0 and those tiles where there is only data from contributors (including the history of all objects) who accepted the CTs could be seen as "contained data under the ODbL, image copyright unknown"?
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> For practical reasons, i.e. the images in our wiki without explicit license information, that are from the tiles at home project, it seems sensible to assume their license is cc-by-sa. If someone comes along and claims a different license, it can be adjusted.
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in this second group (ODBL data) they are anyway also available under CC license
(dual licensing) if I understand situation right
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