[OSM-newbies] Licence

Jens Müller blog at tessarakt.de
Thu Aug 21 16:18:35 BST 2008


Jakub Klawiter schrieb:
> Hello!
> 
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Jan Klopper <janklopper at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Using a CC iframe / map /inlay does not change the License on the rest
>> of your code.
>> Only if you take data from the OSM database / images etc and alter
>> them by adding / removing objects, code, text etc do you need to
>> comply to the CC license.
>>
>> If you insert a OSM image or map in your site the CC license is only
>> valid for that particular image or map.
> 
> OK THNX!
> Only problem i can see now if that space ships engines manufacturer
> wants to add to picture data which you don't want in OSM,

... then that is no problem at all (at least not as far the CC-BY-SA 
license of the OSM data is concerned), because OSM does not have to use 
that data.

I don't see why he should need to ask in order to do so.





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