Licensing Working Group/Trademark licence subcommittee
The Trademark licensing subcommittee has one member of the Licensing Working Group (LWG), one ex-Chairperson of the LWG and one board member who decide on licence requests that are covered by the OSMF Trademark policy, with the understanding that:
- the subcommittee has the authority to grant licences in the "quick licence" (aka licence application for which we have a form template) framework.
- licence grants that are of a bespoke nature will be processed by the full LWG and potentially escalated to the OSMF board.
- licence grant refusals can be appealed to the OSMF board.
- licence grants will be publicly documented in an appropriate fashion.
Members
- Kathleen Lu (Licensing Working Group)
- Simon Poole (former LWG Chairperson and Board member)
- Maurizio Napolitano (Board member)
Get in touch
- trademarks@osmfoundation.org
The administrative assistant, Dorothea Kazazi, is included on the relevant correspondence due to that fact that these are long term contracts that need to be signed by a board member in the end and be part of our corporate records.
Licence grants
- 2018-06-21 Openrailwaymap licence application accepted.
State of the Map quick licence requests
Please see SOTM_Quick_Licence/Requests.
Timeline regarding representatives
- From 2024-10-19: Maurizio Napolitano is the board representative.
- 2023-01 to 2024-10-19: Mateusz Konieczny was the board representative.
- ?2020-07 to 2022-12: Amanda McCann was the board representative.
- 2018-01 to 2019-12: Heather Leson was the board representative.
- 2018-01 onwards: The two LWG representatives are Simon Poole and Kathleen Lu.
- 2018-01: Subcommitee formation approved by board.