[OSM-legal-talk] Best license for future tiles?

Rob Myers rob at robmyers.org
Fri Nov 19 14:56:34 GMT 2010


On 11/19/2010 02:47 PM, Rob Myers wrote:
>
> So if what Christine O'Donnell^D^D^Dyou are saying is correct the ODbL
> doesn't allow you to make proprietary produced works either.

And, while I have the text of BY-SA 2.0 generic open in front of me, I 
can't find any mention of the words "map", "cartography", "geodata" or 
"database" in the licence that OSM currently uses.

So clearly if Christine O'Donnell^D^D^Dyou are right, BY-SA can't be 
used for any of those things.

- Rob.



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