<div dir="ltr">Paul, that sounds like a fair point, if I'm understanding correctly. Alex, would it be fair to say that this is more of a recommended alternative, for all the reasons we've stated?<div><br></div><div>
Richard, can you explain a little more of why you think that the idea is bad for OSM? The trade off that I am seeing here is reducing the readable/indexable/searchable text in exchange for the beginnings of a visual identifier, and a direct link to a strategic copyright page. </div>
<div><br></div><div style>With regards to rebranding, I couldn't agree more that it's no small task. However, I'm not sure why we would lose customer goodwill. While the two are certainly linked, it might not be a bad idea for us to start another thread on the topic of an overall OSM rebranding, just so that we don't derail this discussion here.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Loving all of this input, everyone!</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Paul Norman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:penorman@mac.com" target="_blank">penorman@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The example notice for OdBL contents is “Contains information from DATABASE NAME, which is made available here under the Open Database License (ODbL).” This will <b>always</b> be acceptable as it is explicitly stated as meeting the requirements of 4.3. I can’t see any legal justification in the ODbL for allowing a mark or the example notice, but not something between.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Have you passed any of these ideas by other publishers of ODbL data or the ODC lists?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Alex Barth [mailto:<a href="mailto:alex@mapbox.com" target="_blank">alex@mapbox.com</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 22, 2013 5:40 AM<br><b>To:</b> Talk<br><b>Subject:</b> [OSM-talk] RFC updated: OSM Attribution Mark (was: contributor mark)<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div class="im"><p class="MsoNormal">
<u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">4. The mark is an alternative to "© OpenStreetMap Contributors". Only where the mark can't be used, "© OpenStreetMap Contributors" may be used.<u></u><u></u></p>
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