[OSM-talk] Use of terms similar to "GEOCODE"

Maarten Deen mdeen at xs4all.nl
Thu May 23 12:57:33 UTC 2013


On 2013-05-23 14:38, Simon Poole wrote:
> As I promised in February I investigated with our North American
> counsel what they would consider acceptable use of terms similar to
> the GEOCODE trademark, they came back with examples that they all
> considered OK. I've created a wiki page for future reference
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Geocode_Trademark [1]

The lawyers didn't look at the use of geocode in the URLs of Google 
maps? Is that or is that not legal to use? Or better: are we or are we 
not allowed place such an URL in the wiki? Since that was what all the 
hubbub was about, the removal of all these links.

Maarten



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