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In October 2009, the foundation announced that its members, rather than the OpenStreetMap contributors at large, would vote on changing OpenStreetMap's data license from [[Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike]] to the [[Open Database License]].<ref name="Bégin">{{cite journal|title=Contributors’ enrollment in collaborative online communities: the case of OpenStreetMap|first1=Daniel|last1=Bégin|first2=Rodolphe|last2=Devillers|first3=Stéphane|last3=Roche|work=[[International Journal of Geographical Information Science]]|publisher=Taylor & Francis|volume=32|issue=8|date=2018|pages=1611–1630|doi=10.1080/10095020.2017.1370177|doi-access=free}}</ref>
In September 2013, the foundation began accepting corporate memberships in an "associate member" (nonvoting) category. The initial corporate members were Geofabrik, [[Geotab]], [[Naver]], NextGIS, and [[Mapbox]].<ref>{{cite press release|title=Welcoming our first Corporate Members|publisher=OpenStreetMap Foundation|date=20 July 2014|accessdate=3 May 2020|url=https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2014/07/20/welcome-corporate-members/}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release|title=NextGIS among first OpenStreetMap Foundation’s corporate members|publisher=NextGIS|date=21 July 2014|accessdate=3 May 2020|url=https://nextgis.com/blog/osm-foundation/}}</ref>
== Governance ==
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