[OSM-legal-talk] A very brief brief for our new licence

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Simon Ward wrote:
> Although we would allow
> collective attribution to the OpenStreetMap project, OSM != OSMF.

One thing to keep in mind is that we should avoid explicitly naming 
OpenStreetMap in the license.

There is (always) a possibility that we lose the name - e.g. if it turns 
out that someone has registered it as a trade mark long ago, or is doing 
business under that name, whatever. If we should lose lose the rights to 
the domain name and/or the right to operate under the name OpenStreetMap 
in some countries, this might prompt us to change our name at some point 
in the future.

And we don't want to have to contact all individuals at that time, 
asking whether they'll also be happy to be attributed as "OpenPlanetMap" 
or whatever name we then choose.

Bye
Frederik

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