[OSM-talk] I don't want companies stealing OSM data that I contribute!

[Grant Slater]

On 19 August 2010 11:07, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> AFAIK with new Contributor Terms [1] all data entered into OSM can be
> taken by some company, closed and they could create a product made profit
> on it.
>
> Yes or no? Please just answer this for start.

No, they have to make the data available. The data is share-alike.
http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/summary/

Legal-talk is over here:
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
It is the place to ask legal question.

Regards
 Grant