Nominatim geocoding licence

Can i use Nominatim geocoding in commercial project. On nominatim usage policy Nominatim usage policy is nothing about using it in commercial project only this:

Data is provided under the ODbL license which requires to share alike (although small extractions are likely to be covered by fair usage / fair dealing).

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note that using a service which is run by someone else is different from the data license:

Using the service is covered by the usage policy of the person/organisation who runs the service. If possible you should (in case of much usage) run your own service – the code is under a GPLv2 license.
What you can do with the returned results is covered by the data license: ODbL. Please read the full license text and consult a lawyer if you need an evaluation of your own situation/use case. There have been many questions about using OSM data in commercial products in the past, please read over there: https://help.openstreetmap.org/tags/commercial/?sort=mostvoted

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answered 12 Aug '16, 16:22

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