5. The project 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.
14. Can I use it? we already have google, yahoo!, virtual earth, wikimapia, etc.
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16. http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/help/terms_maps.html You may not copy, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, translate, modify or make derivative works ... You also may not rent, disclose, publish, sell, assign, lease, sublicense, market, or transfer ...
17. http://www.openstreetmap.org You may not copy, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, translate, modify or make derivative works ... You also may not rent, disclose, publish, sell, assign, lease, sublicense, market, or transfer ...
18. OSM legal - talk http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Anyone can copy OSM data. But if you incorporate it into something else, that “something else” also has to be copiable under the same terms and conditions (ShareAlike). When you copy it, you have to give credit to the copyright owner (Attribution).
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