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

Simon Ward simon at bleah.co.uk
Sat Oct 4 13:16:46 BST 2008


On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 02:09:09PM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> One thing to keep in mind is that we should avoid explicitly naming 
> OpenStreetMap in the license.

Agreed.  This would also make the licence unusable by anyone other than
“OpenStreetMap” without modification (one of my most hated things when
having to deal with software under various licences).

Simon
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