<p dir="auto">As discussed at <a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="3639703060" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/6538" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/6538/hovercard" href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/6538">#6538</a>, the Licensing WG get this question often enough that it's worth including in the About page.</p>
<p dir="auto">I have taken a couple of liberties with the phrasing. Also please someone let me know if the use of an em dash is correct as I'm not a user myself.</p>

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<h4>You can view, comment on, or merge this pull request online at:</h4>
<p>  <a href='https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/6541'>https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/6541</a></p>

<h4>Commit Summary</h4>
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  <li><a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/6541/commits/a108d8b237cd8a9c3c8dcdb9bf43d3c87df16d20" class="commit-link">a108d8b</a>  Answer this very frequent question about licensing</li>
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<h4 style="display: inline-block">File Changes </h4> <p style="display: inline-block">(<a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/6541/files">2 files</a>)</p>
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    <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/6541/files#diff-20b1b4068a14bbb692bf60b143f2cd17d495893dbd397e41eadeb732056341d7">app/views/site/about.html.erb</a>
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    <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/6541/files#diff-44438ce218f5287c58d0017f965d888715635d94280669896f75841fbd7b4cd7">config/locales/en.yml</a>
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<h4>Patch Links:</h4>
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  <li><a href='https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/6541.patch'>https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/6541.patch</a></li>
  <li><a href='https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/6541.diff'>https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/6541.diff</a></li>
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