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The Licence Working Group (LWG) has previously issued guidance on some specific licences that are in common use, but there are a plethora of custom licenses that are used by potential data sources and it is not possible for the LWG to inspect every single one and we have to rely on the OSM community to do at least a rough triage before escalating such issues to us.
In all cases you need to take reasonable steps to ensure that the licensor actually is the owner of the necessary rights to licence the material on the terms presented. This is particularly important for licences that explicitly exclude third party rights, for example CC0 and OGL based licenses.
Please realize that determining if the licence is compatible is only a small part of the work that has to be done before a source can be used for OSM, particularly when you intend to directly import third party data you will need to lollow the [https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines Import Guidelines].
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