Dear all The LWG would like to start a period of public review and consultation on our draft trademark policy, that we intend to bring forward to the OSMF board for adoption as a formal policy, please see the text here:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Trademark_Policy#OpenStreetMap_Trademark_Policy Given that there is likely going to be a lot of question, I expect that we will run the review up to early next month. A bit of background: in early 2013 Frederik Ramm and myself started work on a proposal for a trademark policy for the OSMF based on discussions, that, if I recall correctly, had taken place on this list in 2012. For many reasons the draft back then became a victim of internal board strife even though the actual contents and intent were not really contested. Fast forward to 2016, in the mean time the LWG had taken the lead on the issue, but we simply had not got around to doing anything about it. Luckily Luis Villa volunteered to take this on and produce a document based on work he had done for other organisations, using our original document more as a shopping list of the salient points for OSM. I would like to thank Luis for taking the time and producing a document that is light years better than what we amateurs produced. The policy itself doesn't contain anything particularly exotic and you will find similar rules in essentially any other such policy, but we did try to keep community use of the trademarks as free as possible, and only try to outlaw clear misuse which is in the interest of the whole OSM community. Simon
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