The intriguing question is: Does use of OSM in commercial products make OSM a commercial product? IMHO it does not.
This would blow any license like PD, BSD, etc.: Just because companies /use/ what's available on an open basis, doesn't change the status of the objects used. The OSM foundation e.g. is a UK based /non-profit/ organization. A more popular example: There's BSD code in MS products - does this close down the BSD code!? Don't get me wrong: I agree with you in that it is more of a hazzle for OSM to repeat something like that awful redaction process driven by a bot in the past. But on the other hand there's harm to the same extent if we try to make OSM data as /sterile/ as possible as to survive any legal threat. OSM is part of this world and as an eco- system driven by many individuals a sum of data (and to some extent "thought") exchange by these individuals. IMHO it's ridiculous to try to put a copyright tag on each and every geographic toponym, just because someone claims it's a trademark of his. If we attribute each and every word of natural language to someone in this world holding some kind of lock on it, there'd be no OSM at all. Or in other words: This project will never be free of any legal risk (just as any other open source project will not). Greetings cmuelle8 > Sent on Wednesday, 06/26/19 by "Marc Gemis" <marc.ge...@gmail.com> > > Since OSM is used in commercial products, all exceptions you mention > for non-commercial use is not applicable. > > The debate of many persons copying 1 fact from another database has > been discussed in the past, but OSM always tries to err on the safe > side. IMHO It would be more damaging to the project to have to remove > data when a company or organisation start filing copyright claims (as > there is no money to pay lawyers). _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
