Re: Support for quadkeys

["Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak gnome org>]

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Jiří Techet <techet gmail com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
> <zeeshanak gnome org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Jiří Techet <techet gmail com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Mat <mat parad0x org> wrote:
> > > > On 09/12/13 21:59, Jiří Techet wrote:
> > > > > Hello Mathieu,
> > > > >
> > > > > the question is - is this quadkeys location encoding usable for
> > > > > something else than Bing and if not, is it legal to use Bing tiles
> > > > > with libchamplain? I haven't searched much but found this
> > > > >
> > > > > http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/d379de41-3e41-479b-b904-c0a1441ba869/bing-map-tile-server-direct-access-through-xy-and-zoom-values-license-details-needed
> > > > >
> > > > > which doesn't look very encouraging. Frankly if it's used only by Bing
> > > > > and there are any licensing issues, I would be very hesitant to add
> > > > > such a patch because people would be tempted to use it in a
> > > > > not-quite-legal way. The last thing I want are some legal disputes
> > > > > with Microsoft.
> > > >
> > > > Thank you guys for responding so quickly.
> > > >
> > > > Honestly I don't know much about the legal aspect of using Bing or
> > > > Google maps. My assumption was always that if I were to use libchamplain
> > > > to access tiles from, say, Google maps (since their tile servers use
> > > > X/Y/Z coordinates) then *I* would be the one infringing on their term of
> > > > use, not libchamplain.
> > >
> > > Yes, I think this is the case as well. Now let's assume that using
> > > Bing tiles this way isn't legal for some reason. Then what you are
> > > saying is "please modify libchamplain so I can use it in an illegal
> > > way".
> >
> > If there is no Bing support added directly to libchamplain, its all
> > about the app then. An app using Bing could and could not be using
> > Bing legally. IMO not allowing adding of some support for a generic
> > concept/algorithem in libchamplain in the fear that it *could* be
> > easily used to connect to a service in a way that the usage is
> > illegal, is really getting into the paranoia side of being concerned.
>
> I have no problem if it's the *could* case, but when there's no other
> use case then it's rather *will* case and I don't want to add
> something which is only usable when it violates some license.

Ah ok. Time to ask Karen then. :)