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But if you would like to support the project ...please [http://donate.openstreetmap.org/ Donate Buttondonate].
 
==What about map tiles?==
==Are there any special conditions or restrictions for commercial or academic use?==
 
No. Anyone, personal, academic, government, commercial ..., has rights to use our data under equal terms. Our license says, "... These rights explicitly include commercial use, and do not exclude any field of endeavour."
 
== If I have data derived from OSM data, do I HAVE to distribute it? ==
== How should I attribute you? ==
 
<div styleclass="border:1pxosmf-box-primary" solid black;backgroundstyle="margin-colortop:#DDDDFF;padding:5px 1em;"><b>Our requested attribution is "© OpenStreetMap contributors".</b><br/>You must make it clear that the data is available under the Open Database Licence. This can be achieved by providing a "License" or "Terms" link which links to www.openstreetmap.org/copyright or www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl.</div>
 
We ask that you hyperlink the attribution to www.openstreetmap.org where possible. Because OpenStreetMap ''is'' its contributors, you may omit the word "contributors" if space is limited.
 
(If you are using map tiles supplied by us, you must also make it clear that the tiles are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 licence. This may also be fulfilled by linking to www.openstreetmap.org/copyright.)
 
 
=== Where to put it? ===
 
 
This credit needs to appear in a place that is reasonable to the medium or means you are utilising. In other words, you should expect to credit OpenStreetMap in the same way and with the same prominence as would be expected by any other map supplier. Therefore:
* The OpenStreetMap [[Licence/Contributor_Terms|Contributor Terms]]. This acts as the Contents license referred to by ODbL. Note that we have endeavoured to design our licensing system to use just the ODbL license as a "one stop shop" regarding the rights and obligations of end users. It is not our intent for any Contents license to restrict rights further nor to add extra obligations.
 
* [[Licence/Community Guidelines|Community_GuidelinesCommunity Guidelines]] These analyse specific legal terms and generic language in the ODbL specifically as it regards our geodata and how it used. For example, what does the EU Database Directive term "Substantial" extraction mean in practical terms. They carry no formal legal weight but do present what the OpenStreetMap community, and therefore the OSM Foundation as publisher, feels to be reasonable and acceptable.
 
==Can I ask the OSMF questions about the licence?==
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