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

2010-08-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Emilie Laffray wrote: While I am not a legal expert, I will try to answer that one. Companies can already make money from OpenStreetMap: there are plenty of examples around (Skobbler, Cloudmade, Geofabrik, etc). There is nothing preventing a company from using the data. However, they

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

2010-08-19 Thread Frederik Ramm
(moving this thread to legal-talk) Valent: 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. Grant: No, they have to make the data available. The data is share-alike.