[OSM-legal-talk] US local government data: negotiating license?

[Simon Ward]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:57:08PM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> I had the same thoughts when reading the text, but later it says that 
> the data can be used by anyone for any purpose as long as they comply 
> with attribution and sharing requirements, and with that proviso I think 
> it is ok (and true!) to say that OSM is a non-commercial project.

OSM might be considered non‐commercial, but what about companies who use
OSM?  A licence to use data in a non‐commercial project is not
necessarily one that allows distribution to others (commercial or not).

This means such data can’t realistically be incorporated into OSM, but
since non‐commercial organisations can use OSM they should have no
problems also using both OSM data and this trail data together (barring
OSM’s own licence ugliness).

Simon
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