[OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Progressing OSM to a new dataLicence regime

[Dair Grant]

Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:

>We need a situation where someone can say "Yes" when an enquiry
>comes in, not "hire a lawyer to look at license XYZ". Otherwise the
>data is useless for many purposes that everyone would agree it
>should be allowed for.

Unless you go for an unrestricted model like PD, anyone using 
OSM data commercially is going have to have a lawyer look at the 
licence (at which point it's the licence text that counts, not 
who owns the copyright on individual bits of data).

Having said that, it'd be useful to have some guidelines on 
example usage from the OSMF - like the human-readable summary 
you get with a CC licence.

The share-alike aspect is always the bit that causes confusion, 
so a summary of how that interacts with common situations like a 
web-page, a printed map, combining with proprietary data, 
transcoding to another format, giving credit, etc.


-dair
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