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I may get downvoted, but if OSM was not fine with this exact situation happening, then they shouldn't license it the way they do.

Nothing seems to indicate so far that they're not fine with the situation so it looks like everyone is happy.

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I think both sentiments can be valid. If OSM really needs those contributions they need to take responsibility for updating the license. But we as a community should encourage companies to give back to the OSS projects they benefit from.

Well, it is not as if the OSM-community is a monolithic one. Some people are hardline anti-corporate and don't like this; others are part of a big corporation and see this as business as usual.

Even if Lyft would not give back in some form (spoiler: they do, see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lyft), it spreads awareness and drivers will figure out they can fix issues themselves.

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