<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Am Mi., 4. Sept. 2019 um 10:08Â Uhr schrieb Simon Poole <<a href="mailto:simon@poole.ch">simon@poole.ch</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div>We've had a number that when pointed to the policy have not
applied (which is what one would expect), iirc we haven't had
somebody apply and formally not be granted permission.
<p>But all that is not very surprising, as with the notable
exceptions of domain names and events (aka SotM), most common
community use of the marks is already covered and allowed by the
terms in the policy and there is no need to apply formally. As it
should be.</p></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Simon, thank you for the clarification. If I understand the policy correctly, everybody "who contributes to an OSM project in order to support OpenStreetMap’s mission." is considered a community member. I could not find a definition for "OSM project", but looking at the wording, it seems there are several of them (i.e. this is not "the one and only OSM project", but one of several OSM projects), can someone please explain how this is intended to be read? For example are the Apple OSM team, or the Facebook OSM team, or Amazon's OSM team (names of these groups are "made up" by me and not to be taken literally) considered "community members"? <br></div><div><br></div><div>There could also be other cases, which once have started as a community effort, but with the time have detached more and more from the OSM community and could now be considered a closed group disconnected from the OSM community. <br></div><div><br></div><div></div><div>I am also not sure how to interpret the term "contribute ... in order to support OSM's mission". Is using OSM data and attributing it to OSM, already "contributing in order to support the OSM mission" (if a prominent user does it, e.g. a media outlet, I would say yes), maybe the case of only using the data could still be debatable, but for sure, if they would be adding data, a contribution could not be denied? So it may be hard for anybody to qualify as an "unrelated organization or individual", because as soon as you make an edit you (and your organization) are forever a community member? Am I misreading this?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br></div><div>Martin<br></div><div><br></div></div>