OpenAerialMap is a young project, and as such, many of the licensing restrictions are still being worked out. In the short term, all imagery uploaded to OpenAerialMap should be compatible with one of the following two licenses:
- Creative Commons Attribution License
- Public Domain (or the WTF PL), if you prefer.
All information in OpenAerialMap is believed to be compatible with one of the above licenses, and the license it is compatible with is described on the datasource page for the dataset. Note that these licenses are essentially used as categories at this time: The specific license the data is released under may not be, for example, Creative Comons Attribution, but simply a statement that says "Any use of the data requires attribution of the source.", which is compatible with the CC license. If you believe that some dataset is available via OAM in error, please join the OpenAerialMap mailing list and let us know, and we will do our best to resolve the issue.
If you are not the copyright holder, and can not find a statement of copyright about the data, please do not upload it to OpenAerialMap at this time. We are currently working on making the service work. As time goes on, we will expand this licensing. By uploading imagery, you are stating that you are able to act on the behalf of the copyright holder and have released the data under one of the above licenses, or the data has been publically published under one of the above licenses.