[Osmf-talk] Question about permission to use OpenStreetMap name

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

Am Mi., 4. Sept. 2019 um 10:08 Uhr schrieb Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch>:

> We've had a number that when pointed to the policy have not applied (which
> is what one would expect), iirc we haven't had somebody apply and formally
> not be granted permission.
>
> But all that is not very surprising, as with the notable exceptions of
> domain names and events (aka SotM), most common community use of the marks
> is already covered and allowed by the terms in the policy and there is no
> need to apply formally. As it should be.
>


Simon, thank you for the clarification. If I understand the policy
correctly, everybody "who contributes to an OSM project in order to support
OpenStreetMap’s mission." is considered a community member. I could not
find a definition for "OSM project", but looking at the wording, it seems
there are several of them (i.e. this is not "the one and only OSM project",
but one of several OSM projects), can someone please explain how this is
intended to be read? For example are the Apple OSM team, or the Facebook
OSM team, or Amazon's OSM team (names of these groups are "made up" by me
and not to be taken literally) considered "community members"?

There could also be other cases, which once have started as a community
effort, but with the time have detached more and more from the OSM
community and could now be considered a closed group disconnected from the
OSM community.

I am also not sure how to interpret the term "contribute ... in order to
support OSM's mission". Is using OSM data and attributing it to OSM,
already "contributing in order to support the OSM mission" (if a prominent
user does it, e.g. a media outlet, I would say yes), maybe the case of only
using the data could still be debatable, but for sure, if they would be
adding data, a contribution could not be denied? So it may be hard for
anybody to qualify as an "unrelated organization or individual", because as
soon as you make an edit you (and your organization) are forever a
community member? Am I misreading this?

Cheers,
Martin
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