[OSM-legal-talk] Use of OSM Data in Apple Maps

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2014-11-24 19:26 GMT+01:00 Michael Kugelmann <MichaelK_OSM at gmx.de>:

> Am 24.11.2014 17:21, schrieb Martin Koppenhoefer:
>
>> As many of you may already be aware of, Apple is supposedly using ODbL
>> data from OSM after their recent update, in their iOS App "Maps", together
>> with other data (some of which proprietary, some public domain) and
>> appearently also together with older data from OSM (pre-license change).
>>
> Just as a hint:
> * there have been already some discussion wenn Apple started to use OSM
> data for the first time...
>


yes, for reference, this was discussed in the license working group, then
on the board and then back in the license working group. OSMF has indeed
been talking to Apple about this, and the outcome as far as I remember was
that OSMF was not concerned, because Apple were using cc-by-sa data of
individual contributors by the time, i.e. a license intended for works but
applied to data (by that time the license change was almost done, and it
was clear, that the cc-license was unclear for data), and OSMF wasn't the
rights holder (pre-CT, all rights were by the contributors). Also Apple had
modified the attribution string by stating the vague date of the data
(2011/2012), so parts of our concerns regarding the attribution were solved.

The situation is now pretty different, in that they are using ODbL data,
and they are recognizing the copyright for this data (see screenshot).

cheers,
Martin
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