[OSM-legal-talk] License for Press, PR & marketing WAS [OSM-talk] OSM layer into Adobe Illustrator?

[David Groom]

It seems to me it is likely to be some time before any agreement is reached 
on a license for OSM which everyone is happy with, and everyone understands 
what it means.

In the meantime valuable opportunities for publicising OSM are being lost 
because of the license confusion.

Can we now agree something along the lines that any recognised press 
organisation can use OSM data , and anything produced from OSM data, and 
that such use does not create a derived work, and as long as OSM is credited 
as a source for the data that is OK.

To take an example, lets say there was an explosion in Baghdad, ITV might 
want to use an OSM map and draw on the location of the explosion and any 
other relevant things they wanted to illustrate.  Are we really wanting to 
say they couldn't do this, unless they then made that map available 
themselves under a CC-BY-SA license?  Because as someone said the other day, 
all they will do is go out and buy a map, they are not short of money, just 
time, and the harder we make it for them to use our maps the less likely it 
will be they use them.

I know the above would need a bit of refinement so say Reuters could not 
take OSM data and produce a Reuters map of the world, and then resell it, 
etc, but it might help to actually get OSM data used a bit, and hence help 
with publicity for  the OSM project.

At present it seems very unlikely that ITV (one of the two main terrestrial 
TV channels in the UK) will now use any OSM data.

David