Hi, I'm deliberately taking this out of the geocoding context here to make a point regarding the mixing of OSM and non-OSM data:
On 09/23/2015 01:26 AM, Alex Barth wrote: > mixing OSM and non-OSM POIs > should not extend the ODbL to non-OSM POIs and so forth. What we'd like to avoid is someone making a business of selling "the better OSM" by adding to our data other, separately curated, proprietary data, thereby improving OSM without sharing any of the improvements back. That would enable someone to offer e.g. a "better navigation app" that was largely based on OSM but had proprietary data improvements, and the exposure OSM would get from that would be worth nothing as nobody else could use that same database. This would be a use case that the license is specifically designed against and we must take care not to weaken our position here. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
