Licence/Historic/We Are Changing The License: Difference between revisions

The OpenStreetMap community, mainly via legal-talk@openstreetmap.org talk list, began discussing a more appropriate license in 2005. In 2007, a decision was made to keep the current Attribution/Share-Alike license format but have it specially written for use with databases. The OpenStreetMap Foundation then cooperated with the independent [http://okfn.org/ Open Knowledge Foundation] to create the Open Database License 1.0. This was released in 2009 and a vote of Foundation members overwhelming endorsed its adoption. Since May 2010 all new contributors have accepted terms allowing the use of the new license. To date, over 121,000 contributors are willing to allow their contributions to be licensed under ODbL.