[OSM-legal-talk] Another use case for the license

[Rob Myers]

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Joseph Gentle <josephg at gmail.com> wrote:

> If Microsoft / Mapquest / Google / whoever ever decide to join the
> community, would our new open data license let them use any of our
> data?

Nothing in the new licence prevents corporations from using OSM data.

> What / how much would we require them to share back?

Anything they include in *databases* that are derived from OSM IIRC.

OSM won't become a data black hole for corporations. ;-)

- Rob.