[OSM-legal-talk] Licensing implications when extending POI with external metadata

2011-01-20 Thread Joao Neto
Hi, I'm planning to develop an Android application that displays OpenStreetMap POIs near you and complements the OSM data with data coming from other sources (address, phone numbers, user notes, etc.). What are the license implications in doing that? Would I have to expose the combined data under

[OSM-legal-talk] LWN article on license change and Creative Commons

2011-01-20 Thread Kai Krueger
I'd like to link to a recent interesting article on the OSM licensing change on LWN (Linux Weekly News) as I haven't seen it be mentioned anywhere yet. http://lwn.net/Articles/422493/ It also has a 60 entry long comment section. Although much is a rehash of the the endless debates on OSMs own