[OSM-talk] Google WMS: is this legal?

[Jean-Marc Liotier]

simone gadenz wrote:
> I have just come across this WMS service providing google maps
> background for OSM editing. Is it legal?
> 
> http://www.peterdamen.com/GoogleWMS/

No. You must not use Google as a source for OSM. This would be a breach 
of Google's terms of use, it would taint OSM's data and it would expose 
OSM to liability. Please don't do it. As the Google Maps WMS Server's 
administrator himselfs says : "Adhere to the Google Maps terms and 
conditions and don't trace data into Open Street Map".