[OSM-legal-talk] License for Press, PR & marketing WAS [OSM-talk] OSM layer into Adobe Illustrator?

Richard Fairhurst richard at systemeD.net
Tue Feb 27 10:16:57 GMT 2007


Robert (Jamie) Munro wrote:

> I think we answered the display all contributors problem - the CC
> license says "reasonable".

I think the jury's still out on that.

   "You must keep intact all copyright notices for the Work and give the
    Original Author credit reasonable to the medium or means You are
    utilizing by conveying the name (or pseudonym if applicable) of the
    Original Author if supplied"

That requires you to give credit to the Original Author (the  
contributor, not OSM), and expressly states that you must convey  
his/her name. Crediting OSM alone doesn't do that.

"Reasonable" might allow you to reduce the size and/or wording of the  
credit, but there's no express provision here to omit it altogether.

cheers
Richard

"I used to think IANAL was what would happen if Apple marketed sexual  
positions... until I joined OpenStreetMap"





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