Am 23.02.2013 08:24, schrieb Robin Paulson: > On 2013-02-23 09:05, Simon Poole wrote: >> A trademark and other IP use policy is one of the things the new OSMF > > How do we reconcile relatively permissive use of the OSM database, > with relatively restrictive use of the Open Street Map name? For the > moment, I put to one side Stallman's argument that "there is no such > thing as intellectual property" [1].
The "relatively restrictive" is conjecture by you. At least my intention is have a as liberal as possible policy that still makes it clear that we want usage of the relevant names/marks to be non-confusing and factually correct (for example we would not want any of the other actors in the geo-data space using OpenStreetMap as a brand for their products if they do not contain 100% OSM data). Wrt RMS: it suffices to point out that GNU is a trademark of the FSF. Simon _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk