Maarten, there is no need to start the discussion at square one again. We did what our counsel recommended in February as reported then (so you can safely assume that counsel saw a certain potential for trouble in such usage). The list they provided is simply to illustrate usage that is unproblematic.
Simon Am 23.05.2013 14:57, schrieb Maarten Deen: > On 2013-05-23 14:38, Simon Poole wrote: >> As I promised in February I investigated with our North American >> counsel what they would consider acceptable use of terms similar to >> the GEOCODE trademark, they came back with examples that they all >> considered OK. I've created a wiki page for future reference >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Geocode_Trademark [1] > > The lawyers didn't look at the use of geocode in the URLs of Google > maps? Is that or is that not legal to use? Or better: are we or are we > not allowed place such an URL in the wiki? Since that was what all the > hubbub was about, the removal of all these links. > > Maarten > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
