On 3 August 2017 at 23:07, Simon Poole <si...@poole.ch> wrote: > The LWG would like to start a period of public review and consultation on > our draft trademark policy, that we intend to bring forward to the OSMF > board for adoption as a formal policy, please see the text here:
The proposed policy would discourage people from using 'OpenStreetMap' in their project names. To be honest, I don't think this policy is going the right way. This policy seems to protect against applications using OpenStreetMap in the name without using OpenStreetMap data. I don't think that's a serious problem, while the opposite 'problem' occurs quite often: projects using OpenStreetMap data without making it clear that they are doing so (except in some small attribution). For example, I would much rather have that people would call their app 'OpenStreetMap.me' rather than 'Maps.me'. This policy seems to discourage that. -- Matthijs _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
