[OSM-legal-talk] Use of OSM in closed commercial software / License / Copyright?

[Vincent Veldman]

https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Attribution_Guidelines

looking forward to hear from the experienced users here as well on that specific topic, but I think generally only proper attribution is necessary.


The link points out to the official attribution guidelines of the OSMF


I think your specific situations might be covered by the game and simulation section, I quote:" For video or computer games, attribution can be provided either by a  splash screen on application startup, in the game view, during gameplay,  on the credits page, in the menu, or in another suitable location."

notice the "another suitable location"

such a wording gives you a great deal of flexibility how you as developer want to do that.

But generally the "credits" section as mentioned on the OSMF guidelines is a good location I'd argue.


Any of the experienced would kick in here and correct me where I made a mistake,  so I can learn myself as well 



 From:   <stelan at aformx.si> 
 To:   <legal-talk at openstreetmap.org> 
 Sent:   27/09/2023 19:35 
 Subject:   [OSM-legal-talk] Use of OSM in closed commercial software / License / Copyright? 

Hello, 
 
Firstly, I apologize if this question has been answered before, but  
we're new to the world of Open Street Map. 
 
Task: 
I'm asking this question on behalf of our company. We're developing a  
small add-on scenery for a 3D desktop simulation application X-plane.  
For the process of developing our add-on scenery we would like to use  
some of the data available in OSM. If it would be necessary, we would  
also like to modify the data available from OSM, but only for the  
purpose of our project, and no modification of OSM data will be publicly  
available for further redistribution. The customer is an end client.  
That means that the customer will not modify or reproduce the OSM data,  
but the data from OSM will only help creating a more realistic scenery  
of the simulated 3D world. 
 
Questions: 
1. Is this allowed to do under the OSM licence / Open Database License? 
2. What do we have to include in our project in regards to Legal /  
Copyright / Licensing? 
3. Where do we provide credit to OpenStreetMap and what do we have to  
write in the copyright notice? - Would it be fine to include such notice  
in the "About file"? 
 
Thank you for answering and sorry for a possible repetition. 
 
Best regards, 
Stelan 
 
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