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===What exactly do I need to share?===
 
ODbL draws a distinction between data, (geodata), and works produced from the data, (maps). You are probably distributing data if you are involved in searching, routing, geocoding. You are probably distributing maps if you print paper maps, have a website with map tiles, or are displaying a map as part of a larger work such as a television show, film, advertismentadvertisement or book. Sometimes, you may be doing both, for example games production, such as a flight simulator, may involve producing a 3D world and using geodata directly to generate a list of destinations.
 
In brief summary:
If you make a map from OpenStreetMap geodata and publish it, you may publish the map under any license you like. In ODbL parlance, this is known as a "Produced Work".
 
* If the map is in a larger work, like a book or a TV program or a website or an advertismentadvertisement, that larger work can be under any license you like. Share-Alike does not apply to the larger work. We, for example, use CC-BY-SA, but that is our voluntary choice.
 
* However, if you have added to or enhanced our data in order to make the map, you must make those additions publicly available without charge. Also, anyone can extract the original data from the map, (such as latitude and longitudes, names of streets and places), without paying you or asking your permission.
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* The licenselicence of XYZ dataset needs to be compatible with our ODBL 1.0 license and/or you have informed the licenselicence owner and obtained their consent.
* Also note that if XYZ's licence is incompatible with future OSM distribution licences the relevant data will be removed.
* You need to consult with the OpenStreetMap community as to whether the data is relevant and can be imported in a manner that improves rather than degrades our map. See our OpenStreetMap Community [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines Import Guideline]
* we cannot provide you with legal advice, you need to ask your counsel for that,
* we are contractually bound to distribute OSM data under a specific set of licences (currently the ODbL 1.0) and cannot make exceptions,
* as most licences the ODbL has certain grey areas, particularyparticularly when applied to OSM geo-data. We are producing a set of [[Licence/Community Guidelines|Community_Guidelines]] that try to clarify certain issues, however we are far from covering all possible use cases.
 
Please direct all such questions to legal-questions@osmfoundation.org
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 been 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 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.
 
Detailed information about the new license and why it was changed:
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