[OSM-legal-talk] selling map images

[Steve Coast]

On 25 Oct 2007, at 18:47, Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:

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> Daniel Parry wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> To illustrate a question, let's say I were to take a map image or
>> set of images, perhaps making some modifications, from
>> openstreetmap, print them out and sell the print outs, for example
>> as tourist maps.
>>
>> If I included the text:
>>
>> Mapping data provided by OpenStreetMap (http://openstreetmap.org)
>> under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
>>
>> somewhere on the print out, would this be legally allowable?
>
> Yes, but you would have to ShareAlike the tourist maps, i.e. allow
> people to photocopy them.

Only the map portion, though. And so what? The money would be in,  
say, the advertising, you're just cutting your costs by not using  
proprietary maps.

have fun,

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