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''OpenStreetMap creates and provides free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. The project was started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive, or unexpected ways.''
OpenStreetMap is asking existing contributors before 2010-05-12 to re-license their contributions under the [http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ Open Database License 1.0], "ODbL". For those not familiar, this page explains the basic reasons and provides links to further resources with more detail.
If you registered after 2010-05-12, you have already accepted the ODbL and need take no action.
You can [http://openstreetmap.org/user/terms accept the new license and contributor terms here] or from your API user settings page at http://OpenStreetMap.org. You may have to log in first. During April 2011 the [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Database_License/Implementation_Plan#PHASE_2_-_Existing_Contributor_Voluntary_Re-licensing_.28started_10th_August_2010.29 voluntary acceptance phase] will end and we will be adding the capabilility to decline the license should you wish. '''[http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Database_License/Implementation_Plan#PHASE_3_-_Existing_Contributor_Mandatory_Re-licensing_.28Phase_2_.2B_5_or_10_weeks.29 You will need to accept or decline the new terms] before you can continue editing.''' If you click "Decline", you will still be able to continue editing until [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Database_License/Implementation_Plan#PHASE_4_-_CC-BY-SA_edits_no_longer_accepted._.28Phase_3_.2B_at_least_8_weeks_subject_to_critical_mass.29 Phase 4].
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