[OSM-legal-talk] License clarification question

[Sebastian Kurfürst]

Hi everybody,

I've been thinking about the situation and I currently still have some  
questions:

- The POI _Metadata_ (which is shown in a "Popup") is definitely not  
licensed under the CC-By-SA, right?

- Concerning the new license: [1]
>   Geocoding
>
> If I run my database of 1000 customers addresses through OSM to  
> derive the geolocation of those customers, the resulting dataset  
> should not come under the OSM license. The same is true for the  
> reverse way: If I have 1000 geographic locations and want to know  
> the nearest street, I should be able to derive that information from  
> OSM data without having the result be under OSM license.
This means effectively that the POI data would not be licensed under  
the new OSM license, right?

- What about information not being possible to store in OSM, like  
special overlays or information you need for routing purposes (i.e.  
"find the shortest way from A to B.")

It'd nice if you could as well clarify the questions in my last email,  
especially about the license the data is put under if you click onto a  
point in the OSM-based map to geocode something.

Are there some more use cases related to geocoding for the current  
license I forgot so far? (i.e. other companies using geocoding based  
on OSM data, etc)

Thanks again for your help, and have a nice and relaxing christmas,
Sebastian Kurfürst

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Brief_for_proposed_OSM_licence