[Local-chapters] Requirements Local Chapters

Richard Welty rwelty at averillpark.net
Fri Mar 19 20:43:50 GMT 2010


On 3/19/10 4:26 PM, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote:
> On Friday 19 March 2010 20:22:33 Richard Welty wrote:
>    
>>> Exceptions should be allowed for cultural reasons, not just for legal
>>> ones. For example OSM is called 开放街道地图 in Chinese, so a Chinese
>>> organization should be able to use that name and not the English one.
>>>        
>> there maybe legal issues as well.
>>
>> in the US, an incorporated entity is usually required to have something
>> like "Incorporated" at the end of its name.
>>      
> And the spanish one is "Asociación OpenStreetMap España".
>
> Seriously, guys, I don't think that "Asociación" in Spain, or "incorporated"
> in the US, or "e.v." in Germany is going to pose a problem. In fact, I think
> the guys at the OpenStreetMap FOUNDATION are going to understand.
>
>    
but there is no particular reason why the requirements shouldn't try to 
match
actual reality.

richard





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