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Licensing is in general a difficult subject and for data even more so than for creative works. Our goal must be that consumers of OSM data can use our data with a high level of confidence that they can actually use the data on the terms of our distribution licence, the ODbL 1.0.
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
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 the CC0 and OGL based licenses, but you always need to vet the provenance of all the data you want to use.
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 follow the [https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines Import Guidelines].
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