[OSM-talk-be] AGIV CRAB not usable in OSM!

A.Pirard.Papou A.Pirard.Papou at gmail.com
Sun Jun 2 11:12:10 UTC 2013


On 2013-06-01 17:41, Johan C wrote :
> Will AGIV accept attribution on this
> page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors in order to use
> the data under ODbL?
Note that a similar problem occurs when people add OSM data to Google Maps.
> You are free to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt our data, as long
> as you credit OpenStreetMap and its contributors. If you alter or
> build upon our data, you may distribute the result only under the same
> licence.
> ...
>
> For a browsable electronic map, the credit should appear in the corner
> of the map. For example:
>
However, Google's general license
<http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/> is that any uploaded
data becomes their property and that it's not allowed to copy it back
!!!  That's a blatant infringement of OSM's copyright !!!
The "corner of the map" is obviously not applicable and the OSM source:
tag must be used.
But who knows where Google source tag is?

It hurts me to see OSM people so meticulous and Google careless.

Cheers,

André.



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