Hi, On 04.08.2017 12:48, Simon Poole wrote: >> Geofabrik for example offers a product called "OpenStreetMap Data in >> Layered GIS Format" [1] - that is certainly a nominative use but at the >> same time also "sell(ing) stuff with OSM’s brand on it" as per section >> 3.4.
> Yes, but that isn't a conflict. IMHO GeoFabrik simply needs permission > to use the mark that way (and a further licence for "creating and using > extremely unwieldy product names that just cause trouble" :-)). I've always thought that using this name would the honest approach, rather than selling a product called "Geofabrik's cool Geodata" something or other, where the fact that it's 100% processed OSM is somewhere in the small print. > A personal note: one of my pet peeves are the awful unimaginative, > uncreative and descriptive product and service names used in OSM-space, I don't see why I should call something that simply is an OSM WMS by a creative name that requires everyone to follow an extra indirection to understand what it is. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
