[OSM-legal-talk] Software using open street map data and Licensing model / restrictions

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

El Jueves, 20 de Agosto de 2009, Alex escribió:
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> What I want to know is if my application itself and my website (that
> will be presenting a google/OSM style Ajax map)  has to be licensed
> under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 or is it only
> the subset of OSM data the I will be working with ?

Only the OSM data / map tiles have to be licensed as such.

However, if you mix OSM POIs with user-generated POIs (merging both in one 
file, etc), you have to make available those POIs under the same license as 
the OSM data.

> Is it OK to sell my application provided that references and links to
> OSM are provided when OSM based Tiles and POIs are presented and used
> inside my app ??

Yes, perfectly possible. Look at offmaps for an example.


Cheers,
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