[OSM-talk] Illegal activity

[Anthony]

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Shaun McDonald
<shaun at shaunmcdonald.me.uk> wrote:
>
> On 1 Nov 2009, at 20:17, Anthony wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Peteris Krisjanis <pecisk at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Anyway, to resume all this discussion - PLEASE don't trace from photo
>>> without permission for OSM, whatever your temptations are.
>>
>> Permission from whom, and in what form?  Supposedly the Yahoo images
>> are okay, but 1) Yahoo didn't take the pictures in the first place,
>> and 2) I haven't verified that Yahoo even gave permission (who signed
>> the waiver?  what indication do we have that they were authorized to
>> do so?  can I see a copy of the waiver?  what exactly are the terms?).
>>
>> I'm hesitant to push that issue, but hey, if OSM decides to stop
>> helping people trace from Yahoo maybe someone else will come along
>> with less silly rules.
>>
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Yahoo has the information you want about
> the legalities of Yahoo.

The answer being: there is no waiver, and there is no copyright
license.  If tracing Google maps is copyright infringement, so is
tracing Yahoo maps.