Dear All One of the big grey areas remaining wrt our distribution licence is defining if, and how you can link from external data to an OpenStreetMap derived dataset. Nailing this down is, in my opinion, key to progress in getting rid of other areas of contention (for example geo-coding).
In the past it seems that most people that have engaged in the discussion in principle would be happy with the "Fairhurst Doctrine" however we have had trouble actually turning that in to a usable text. I've now drafted a proposal that tries to actually express the essence of the doctrine while at the same time remaining compatible with the the "Horizontal Layers" guideline. The proposal is here http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_Metadata_Guideline The relevant discussion pages http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Metadata_Layers_-_Guideline I have to say that I'm not completely happy with the document as is, however nobody has come up with anything better. It will definitely need some more examples in a final version. Simon
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