jmapviewer: bing logo

2014-10-15 Thread Felix Natter
Dear debian-legal experts, we are discussing whether or not the bing logo image [1] should be shipped with the "jmapviewer" package in main. I as the package author originally thought that we should not advertise bing, but Sebastiaan from debian-gis argues that we violated MS terms of use by not

[jmapviewer] Bing Maps logo

2014-10-15 Thread Felix Natter
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, could you please tell us under what license we can distribute the Bing logo [1] (and the "BingAerialTileSource" [2]) in JMapViewer [3] as part of the Debian linux distribution? (JMapViewer is Open Source (GPL), and we hope that distributing the bing maps logo along with

Re: jmapviewer: bing logo

2014-10-15 Thread Riley Baird
> we are discussing whether or not the bing logo image [1] should be shipped > with > the "jmapviewer" package in main. > > I as the package author originally thought that we should not advertise > bing, but Sebastiaan from debian-gis argues that we violated MS terms of > use by not including it

Re: jmapviewer: bing logo

2014-10-15 Thread Ian Jackson
Felix Natter writes ("jmapviewer: bing logo"): > I as the package author originally thought that we should not advertise > bing, but Sebastiaan from debian-gis argues that we violated MS terms of > use by not including it (please see the PDF link included in that mail): I agree that we should avoi

Aw: Re: jmapviewer: bing logo

2014-10-15 Thread Felix Natter
hi Ian,   Sorry but I've worked ~2 years on the freeplane package for it to be in jessie/main, und we're ~2 weeks from the jessie freeze, so if including the logo is DFSG compliant then that is enough for me.   => So I see two options:   1. I get a positive reply from Microsoft soon --> I w