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

[Alexander Zatko]

If you plan to mash up OSM data with your own (not OSM) data in your product, I believe you are obliged to contribute your data back to OSM. I might be wrong, but this is my understanding of the license.

> On 27 Sep 2023, at 13:35, stelan at aformx.si wrote:
> 
> 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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