[OSM-newbies] License

[Nichlas Hummelsberger]

I was looking through the archive of this mailing list when i found this bit
from May 20.:

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 7:08 AM, John <imachessnut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> If you use Bing imagery, you need to know that this data is
>> licensed
>> specifically to the OSM project.
>>
>> - Serge
>
> What does 'use' mean?  I would only use the satelite images to make sure I
put the points in the right place...the final map would not have any
satelite imagry.

The original question was about saving off the data in a file.

I wanted to point out that using Bing imagery outside the context of
OSM is not allowed by the license terms of the Bing service.

For example, if you wanted to use the traced data for another project,
that wouldn't be allowed.

- Serge

I sincerely cannot believe that it is true, that ways/buildings traced while
using bing imagery would not be under the normal OSM license, and therefore
usable for whatever legal purpose outside of OSM. There would be no point in
making data that was forever locked inside OSM.

I understand that the imagery itself, while it is shown in Potlach, is
exclusive to internal OSM purposes.
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