[OSM-talk] [Legal-general] Ordnance Survey tries to reinforce its stranglehold over "derived" geographic data in the UK

[Lester Caine]

Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
> Frederik Ramm wrote:
>> All OS are doing is clarifying that a normal OS customer will probably 
>> *not* have the right to grant others (Google) a "perpetual, irrevocable, 
>> worldwide, royalty-free" license.
>>
>> This is true for OSM as well; my reading is that we must not display OSM 
>> data (say, a KML file we have generated from our data) on top of a 
>> Google map, because the above clause would then give Google rights to 
>> our data which are incompatible with CC-BY-SA.
>>
>> In conclusion, if someone says the OS is "reinforcing its stranglehold", 
>> then the CC-BY-SA license forces us to do the same...
> 
> Interesting, I had never thought about this, but it does make sense.
> 
> So google effectively claims gratis usage right to all "collective
> works" displayed using the Gmaps api?!

And I think at one stage - anything submitted via chrome? Not sure THAT 
condition on the chrome licence has been removed but it certainly stops 
me from even downloading it ;)

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