Hi Marc, I am not a lawyer, and I don't speak with any authority on either the legal implications of the license or on behalf of the OpenStreetMap Foundation. And no part of this e-mail constitutes legal advice, talk to a lawyer familiar with intellectual property law.
The data for OSM is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 license (see: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/License ), currently. Which means that you are free to do whatever you like with the data, print out maps and fold them into hats, give them to your family. Derive works from them and use them in art (as Meg Scheminske has done with Google Map's--though her use may not be legal--see: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zachklein/3609217246/ .) But you must attribute OpenStreetMap with their part of the data and make note of the license they use. And more importantly the resulting derivative work must be re-released with a Share Alike compatible license. That is, there is nothing stopping you from Making a map and selling it. But once people have that may they are free to make copies of that map and use it however they see fit (printing it in a book, plasticizing it and selling it, using it in a derivative art piece) provided they too attribute your work (and that of OSM) and re-release their product with a Share Alike compatible license Read the full license at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode and see the OpenStreetMaps Legal FAQ at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Legal_FAQ So my take on your situation is that you could use the OpenStreetMap data just fine, but since you're a consultant whomever you are consulting for would have to sign off on your end product being liberally licensed. I know this would not work if you were making say wind resource maps for a company planning to sell that data, but may be acceptable if you were making maps for a non-profit company or public entity. Best of luck, -Tyler On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Marc Roussel <rousselmar...@yahoo.fr>wrote: > Hi, > i'm consultant in GIS and cartography domain. Can i use OSM shape data for > my work? > I make and sell digital maps, and i sell may compositions in raster > format. > My end product is an elaboration datas, vector + raster. > My question is if i can use OSM shape data for sale my etaboration rasters > maps. > > Regards > > Marc Roussel > > > _______________________________________________ > legal-talk mailing list > legal-talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk > >
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