Probably it's too late for OsmAnd and it has to be grandfathered by now. I suppose Richard's question is more "how you would formulate a policy that would have permitted osmosis and osmium but not OsmAnd, if said projects were to be created with the policy already in place". In other words, how to prevent *future* OsmAnd-like naming situations.
-- Nicolás 2017-08-05 7:04 GMT-03:00 Yves <yve...@gmail.com>: > " How you formulate a policy that permits osmosis and osmium but not OsmAnd, > though, I have no idea" > > > How you formulate a policy that deals with the name of established projects, > I have no idea. But should you? Maybe a far softer grandfathering rule would > be easier. > Yves > > > Le 5 août 2017 11:37:07 GMT+02:00, Richard Fairhurst <rich...@systemed.net> > a écrit : >> >> Roland Olbricht wrote: >>> >>> This makes clear that neither the file name extension "osm" is >>> jeoparday. Or you do not want to discourage people from using >>> "osmium", "osmosis" or a range of other software. >> >> >> I see your point there, but conversely I am really uncomfortable with the >> OsmAnd situation. >> >> It's evident (from IRC, help.osm.org, other non-OSM forums etc.) that a >> lot >> of people assume OsmAnd is the official OpenStreetMap Android app. This is >> already a problem in terms of support burden. It could potentially become >> a >> problem for others building apps on OSM data (if users say "oh, no, I'd >> rather use the official app") or by effectively encouraging mapping for >> this >> official-sounding renderer. In brief, I don't believe we should have >> permitted OsmAnd to use that name, though by now the ship has almost >> certainly sailed. >> >> How you formulate a policy that permits osmosis and osmium but not OsmAnd, >> though, I have no idea. >> >> Richard >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://gis.19327.n8.nabble.com/Draft-Trademark-Policy-tp5900227p5900330.html >> Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> ________________________________ >> >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
