Dear debian-legal and debian-gis members, I contacted map...@microsoft.com and they replied with contact details of Mr. Jalon Shoemaker. I talked to him on the phone, but he is a sales person and is only in charge of selling me licenses. I've got an email address of a more technical person at bing maps, and I will send an email to him in a few minutes.
IMHO the question is: Under which license are we allowed to use http://dev.virtualearth.net/REST/v1/Imagery/Metadata/Aerial?include=ImageryProviders&output=xml&key=... (the REST Service for Bing maps) at all? The license (http://www.microsoft.com/maps/product/terms.html) is pretty restrictive... (or am I missing something?) "2. Definitions. “Education or Non-Profit Organization Use” means using the Services with a Company Application that displays results for education or non-profit use, where non-profit organization means a tax exempt organization and education means use by public or private K-12 schools, universities, community colleges or other collegiate level institutions such as vocational schools, trade schools or career colleges, including their faculty, staff, and students, provided that your use is consistent with the terms of Section 5. Further your Company Application must be one of the following: publically available without restriction (for example, login or password must not be required), available only to current students of your education organization via your private network in order to provide education related services, available internally for free instructional use, or available internally for non-commercial research use. Commercially funded research projects and commercial company use for educational purposes are excluded from Education or Non-Profit Organization Use." "5. Education or Non-Profit Organization Use. Subject to your compliance with Sections 1, 2, 5 and 8 of this TOU, you may develop or host a Company Application that uses the Services to display results for Education or Non-profit Organization Use (as defined in Section 2)." => We cannot guarantee that no one uses JMapViewer (GPL) commercially... => I think we need to investigate that for jessie+1, but now I think we should parse the "attribution data" and use the included link to download the logo at runtime (many thanks to the patch [1] from Marcus Lundblad <m...@update.uu.se> and Martin Krüger <martin.krue...@gmx.com>)? We should really agree on something now ;-) [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=765421#60 Thanks and Best Regards, -- Felix Natter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87wq7ucvy5....@bitburger.home.felix
