[OSM-newbies] License

[Serge Wroclawski]

On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Nichlas Hummelsberger
<nichlas.hummelsberger at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Nichlas,

I'm always glad to have a license discussion, especially in regards to
information for new people.

Let me clarify my statement now.

It's my understanding that the Bing imagery is a donation to the OSM
project. The raw imagery belongs to Bing and is under their Terms of
Use. OSM has been given access to this imagery for use by the project
for tracing.

This imagery itself is not part of the OSM project, and is not
available for tracing by other projects.

Data derived from this imagery is available from OSM under the OSM license.

- Serge