[talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

[Ben Last]

On 15 June 2011 19:52, David Groom <reviews at pacific-rim.net> wrote:

>
> sorry to be pedantic, but when you say "the second paragraph allows edits
> submitted before the 17th of  June 2011 under CC-BY-SA (i.e., by someone who
> hadn't accepted the new CTs
> at the time of submission) .....   to stay in the database", do you mean it
> is OK for someone who in the past has made edits based on Nearmap imagery,
> (and who has not yet agreed to the CT's because they had used Nearmap) , to
> now agree to the CT's without being in breach of Nearmaps T & C's?
>
> I know this may seem like splitting hairs, but there is a difference
> between "allowing edits to remain in the database" which is something OSM
> sysadmins have control over, and "allowing users to agree to the CT's" which
> is something individual OSM users have control over, and I'm just trying to
> understand , as someone who has used Nearmap, but not agreed to the CT's,
> where I stand.
>
> Pedantic is ok, this was written by lawyers!

The second paragraph was drafted specifically to allow any NearMap-derived
edits made up to the 17th of June to stay in the OSM database.  As I
understand it, this statement allows a user to sign up to the new CTs
without violating our licence in respect of those edits.

Regards
Ben
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