Licence/Licence and Legal FAQ: Difference between revisions

The [http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ Open Database License, "ODbL" 1.0], is an Attribution and Share-Alike license for Data/Databases. It has beenwas developed by [http://www.opendatacommons.org Open Data Commons] with input from OpenStreetMap.

It offers clearer protection for OpenStreetMap and better clarity to end users. 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 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.