[Qgis-user] Re: does open layers distribute my own layers?

[cubarro]

Hi, Alister.

Andreas fully answered my question, but as you say, the complexity on copy
rights is deeper than placing a logo.

Yes, I am not making commercial maps, if so, then I should pay the sources
of my work.  I am using OL only for placing myself working with other
sources of remote sensing data.

If I would work making commercial maps, then the three main sources of data
in Open Layers (OL) should be considered as sources and in that case, they
should share the profit of the products.

Then, I think from the broader to the most restrictive license I would
consider OpenStreetMap, Yahoo and Google at the end.

I think only lawyers can read both three licenses, understand all the scopes
and spirit of that, and bring some clarifications about the use and the
duties of users.  But if they are that easy to use like turning on and off,
then, it would be aloud for us to reference approximated maps flyers of our
work.

If the duties of users are deeper, then I would uninstall the extension from
my Qgis.

Regards 

Lopez


Alister Hood wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:29:02 +0200
>> From: Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] does open layers distribute my own layers?
>> To: <qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>
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>> 
>>  Hi,
>> 
>>  Your data is certainly not automagically uploaded to OL servers. It
>>  wouldn't even be technically feasible.
>> 
>>  It is your responsibility, however, to respect the Open Layers
> license,
>>  which is quite liberal, anyway. BSD style licenses typically only
>>  require that you do not remove the copyrights from the source code
> and
>>  give credits. It is totally fine to combine it with commercial
> services.
>> 
>>  Andreas
> 
> I think you may have misunderstood the question, Andreas.  I think it is
> about the copyright of the layers that you can load with the OpenLayers
> QGIS plugin, not the copyright of the Open Layers code.
> 
>>  On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:17:39 -0700 (PDT), cubarro wrote:
>> > Dear qgis users.
>> >
>> > I am wondering  about the use of Open Layers.  Because I am not
>> > lawyer and I
>> > have not read all the conditions on using this data, I have a
>> > question.
> 
> Perhaps you need to read the conditions then ;)
> Unfortunately the providers of some of these layers have not made it
> easy to find out what you are allowed to use them for :(
> 
> I am also not a lawyer, but from what I could tell when I looked into
> it, you are essentially not allowed to use the layers from _Google_ in
> any derivative works... except something like producing a flyer for your
> business and using it to show your business location.  This is the case
> even if you use Google Earth Professional - if you want to create
> derivative works you need to license the imagery from the original
> copyright holder (which is not Google).  The law in your country may
> grant you additional rights, e.g. to use it for "academic" use, or maybe
> for a "work of art" or something.
> 
> I have read that the license for Yahoo and/or Bing imagery may be a lot
> less restrictive, but that was specifically in the context of using it
> to trace Openstreetmap data (they may have granted permission just for
> this; I'm not sure), and I think I never found a conclusive answer.
> 
> The Openstreetmap layer: I haven't read the license, but I'm sure it is
> easy to find and quite explicit about the requirements :)
> 
>> > If I use open layers, my own data will be automatically distributed
>> > to those
>> > servers?
>> >
>> > Regards.
>> >
>> > Lopez
> 
> 
> Alister
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