[OSM-talk] [talk-au] [OSM-legal-talk] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

[James Andrewartha]

On 15 June 2011 11:56, David Murn <davey at incanberra.com.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 10:39 +0800, James Andrewartha wrote:
>> On 15 June 2011 09:36, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Ben Last <ben.last at nearmap.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi all
>> >> As promised, with apologies for the delay, here is the statement from NearMap regarding submission of derived works of our PhotoMaps to OSM.
>> >
>> > Dear Ben,
>> >
>> > Thank you for providing this clear statement, for NearMap's
>> > contributions to the OpenStreetMap community, and for the generous
>> > decision to allow current NearMap-referenced data to remain in OSM.
>>
>> Does it? I haven't agreed to the CTs, therefore my NearMap tracings
>> are CC-BY-SA, and hence will be purged from the database in Phase 5.
>
> Bens statement said:
>
> "may be held and continue to be used by OSM under the terms in place
> between OSM and the individual"
>
> In other words, nearmap allows you to make your own mind up in regards
> to derived data youve contributed.  If you havent agreed to CTs, then
> your work will be removed, but if you wish to agree you are now not
> breaching any existing rights.  So I guess that cuts down the amount of
> dirty data OSM will have in their DB, it doesnt remove it completely,
> but there seems to be no interest in a 100% clean db, as long as 99% is
> good enough.

The words immediately following that quote are quite relevant: "may be
held and continue to be used by OSM under the terms in place between
OSM and the individual which submitted the addition or edit at the
relevant time." So only contributions a user made after the CT/ODbL
was agreed to by that user (and before June 17 2011) can be kept.

James Andrewartha