[OSM-talk-be] licence-agreement for using 3th party received information ???

[Ben Laenen]

Dennis Bollyn wrote:
> Kristoff,
> I don't think a license that forbids commercial use of the data is
>  compatible with openstreetmap. Doing so would in my opinion be counter to
>  the spirit. Best regards,

Indeed, OSM data is CC-BY-SA, which allows distribution for any purpose, 
including commercial. If you know beforehand it isn't allowed to distribute 
the data you get for commercial purposes, it simply can't go into OSM. The 
purpose of OSM is just to have data available without any usage restrictions 
(ok, except from attribution and share alike).

And if there would come a switch to the open database license (not a lot of 
news about that recently), that would still allow commercial usage of the 
data.

Greetings
Ben