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== Where we are now ==
 
OPENSTREETMAP DATA IS NOT YET AVAILABLE UNDER THE NEW LICENSE.
OPENSTREETMAP DATA IS NOT YET AVAILABLE UNDER THE NEW LICENSE. The initial change over phase began 12th May 2010. New contributors are asked to license their data under both the new and old license during a transitional period. We then begin asking existing contributors to re-license their contributions under the new license. Once a critical mass has been achieved, the old license will no longer be used on the current database. Prior copies of the database will be continue to be available under CC BY SA as long as there is demand.
 
On Wednesday 5th September, the board of the OpenStreetMap Foundation resolved that the license change should go ahead. This was announced at State Of The Map Conference, Thursday 6th September. The exact date and time of the change-over will happen when our next planet dump, (a single publicly downloadable XML-based compressed file of our entire database) is published. This is likely to happen in the next few days.
We have a [[osm:Open_Data_License/Implementation_Plan|proposed adoption plan]]. This is not cast in stone and we welcome direct comments on [[osm:Talk:Open_Data_License/Implementation_Plan|the discussion page for the plan]].
 
Prior copies of the database will be continue to be available under CC BY SA as long as there is demand.
 
Our [[osm:Open_Data_License/Implementation_Plan|implementation plan]] provides more information about the history of the change-over process.
 
== The documents ==
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