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Documentation for Open Mapping At Facebook
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Terms of Use are unclear about whether it's open source or not #2

Closed amandasaurus closed 5 years ago

amandasaurus commented 5 years ago

The copyright licence for this project is MIT, an open source licence.

The mapwith.ai Terms of Use also say "You may use any data or information that the Services make available to you(the “Services Data”)under the terms of the MIT license (https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)", but then later go on to say:

You may not access or use, or attempt to access or use, the Services to take any action that could ... For example, and without limitation, you may not

attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble, or reverse-engineer any of the software comprising or in any way making up a part of the Service;

So, can I "decompile" RapID or not?

gaoxm commented 5 years ago

Thanks for submitting the first issue @rory ! The RapiD source code is available at https://github.com/facebookincubator/RapiD. We'll add a link to the website to make it more noticeable and less confusing.

gaoxm commented 5 years ago

RapiD repo link added to mapwith.ai website

amandasaurus commented 5 years ago

The mapwith.ai website terms of use still prohibit reverse engineering, and decompilation.

attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble, or reverse-engineer any of the software comprising or in any way making up a part of the Service;

I know this is legal stuff and not easy to change. But c'mon folks!

gaoxm commented 5 years ago

Hi Rory,

Let me clarify the license coverages on different components of Map With AI:

(1) The source code of RapiD is published on github and that's available under the terms of the ISC license. There's nothing to decompile there anyway since its provided in source code.

(2) The AI-generated roads that are made available through RapiD are available via the MIT license. There is nothing to decompile there either because they are provided in human-readable XML format (although mostly consumed through map editing activities in RapiD).

(3) Finally, there is the provision of the mapwith.ai website itself, which is covered by the mapwith.ai website terms of use. Similar to other public services like github, we are providing the service by hosting mapwith.ai and the terms apply only to our hosting and provisioning of the website.

I hope that answers your question or concern :).