<div class="gmail_quote">On 17 June 2010 03:47, Frank Sautter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:openstreetmap@sautter.com">openstreetmap@sautter.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
WolframAlpha uses OpenStreetMap data<br>
<a href="http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Berlin" target="_blank">http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Berlin</a><br>
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Is the license attribution they are using OK?<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think it depends on whether you can seperate the map that Wolfram|Alpha have created from the rest of their content. If the map is seen as separate from the rest of the page, then I think it's probably fine. However, I think that it's a stretch to say that the single map component is seperate from the rest of the result. The whole thing creates a single creative work. Therefore, I think that every result that uses an OSM map should be licenced under CC-BY-SA or similar:</div>
<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px; "><strong style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">"Share Alike</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px; ">—</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px; "><span>If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one" [1]</span></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px; "><span><br></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">However, from the sounds of this discussion, the OSM community seems to really be caring about the attribution requirement. If so, I think the group should reduce its licencing requirements to CC-BY. This would reflect the intention of what people are after in practice.</font></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; ">-Tim</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div> </div></div>[1] <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/</a>