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The new license offers clearer protection for OpenStreetMap and better clarity to end users. The general principles remain the same, OpenStreetMap data is offered freely for any use under Attribution and Share Alike terms. One important difference to highlight is that we will no longer require maps made from our data to be released under Share Alike conditions. Instead, any license can be used, including commercial, as long as any enhancements you made to our data is is shared back as data, for example a file on a website, or, better for us, directly contributed to OpenStreetMap. This should make it easier to make maps with layers of data from closed proprietary sources, something impossible now.
Detailed information about the new license and why it is being changed:
* [[License/About_The_License_Change]]
* [[License/We_Are_Changing_The_License]] this page summarises the change for OpenStreetMap contributors.
* [[osm:Open Data License|the OpenStreetMap community's general wiki pages]]
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