Hi, rajan vaish wrote: > Hi,I am working on my proposal for GSoC'09 right now and for the routing > implementation tasks ,I intend to use Libraries/APIs of CloudMade ( > http://developers.cloudmade.com/ ) which works on OSM as well.Am I allowed > to use the same ?
I don't see why not. It is true that CloudMade say you may use their site "solely for your personal use", whereas Google say any software you produce must be licensed under an OSI approved license (i.e. you cannot produce software licensed as "only for personal use"). But you can simply pass on this restriction to the users of your software: The software you make is free for use/inspection/modification by anybody as per the OSI compliant license you choose, but if people then use your software to access the CloudMade site then they may only do so for their personal use. As you correctly point out, the situation is similar to GSoc students writing software that interacts with Google Maps. Whether or not the OSM project accepts and endorses a proposal for a GSoC project that will only work using the services of CloudMade (which are outside the control of the OSM project) is of course another matter, but I guess if it is something seriously cool then nobody will ask many questions. I believe that CloudMade used to have a developer sponsorship programme of their own where they handed out grants for the development of OSM-related software, so that might be another avenue for you to follow up (but you should really ask them directly as it has been a while since this was last mentioned). Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
