[Openstreetmap] Re: money and what to do about it

[SteveC]

* @ 18/03/05 04:31:30 AM schuyler at nocat.net wrote:
> * On 17-Mar-2029 at  5:29PM PST, SteveC said:
> > 
> > IP wise, whats to stop me reconstructing the image from mapserver tiles
> > and selling it in competition with $satellite_reseller? Or, giving it
> > away free hence lowering the market value of their product? Unless they
> > have extremely liberal license here, or they really want to view the
> > person scraping as the infringer... there could be problems?
> 
> I believe that Space Imaging's license for the IKONOS data prohibits
> redistribution of the raster data unless downsampled to 16:1 or less,
> but explicity permits unlimited redistribution of derived vectors.
> 
> Anyone volunteering to do vectorization would probably have to sign
> (click?) some kind of legal agreement to the effect that they
> understand the terms of the license under which we acquire the data
> and agree, for the sake of the project, (a) not to copy or
> redistribute the satellite imagery, no matter how tempting it might
> seem, and (b) that the vectors they create based on the imagery become
> the property of the sponsoring organization (e.g. OKFN), to be
> published under a suitable Open license that everyone agrees to ahead
> of time.
> 
> > I'm flipping between thinking its really easy or really hard to do
> > properly. It depends a lot on the image scale and what kind of
> > topography its looking at. 'Course maybe the image comes with coordinate
> > overlays or other useful data.
> 
> It will be easy. Any imagery we purchase will have to be georeferenced
> and orthorectified.

Ah its all good then! :-)

have fun,

SteveC steve at fractalus.com http://www.fractalus.com/steve/