[OSM-legal-talk] Attribution

[Peter Miller]

Good points.

 

My interpretation is that planet.osm is a new Derived Work each week and
could be made available on the latest CC-BY-SA licence, ie 3.0.

 

Would you suggest that the attribution on paper would be as follows?

"Map licence CC-BY-SA 3.0, details www.openstreetmap.org/licence"

 

The web version would link from CC-BY-SA 3.0 to
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ and it might be appropriate
to adjust the displayed text for the openstreetmap link.

 

Personally I think this is getting pretty crisp and practical. It does rely
on a few specific legal opinions that we would need to get checked out by a
real lawyer (as I mentioned in the previous post) and of course we can then
fiddle with the detailed wording until the cows come home which sounds like
fun.

 

Have I missed anything?

 

 

Peter

 

 

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rob at robmyers.org 
Tue Jul 10 13:58:44 BST 2007

 

Quoting Peter Miller <peter.miller at itoworld.com
<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-talk> >:
 
> Agreed, 'Some rights reserved' is not every precise and 'CC-BY-SA' gives
> more information to the informed reader in the same text length.
> 
> "data from www.openstreetmap.org, CC-BY-SA licence" makes a lot of sense.
I
> assume this text would be linked to the OSM site and Creative Commons
> licence page respectively when used on a web site.
 
Make sure to include the licence version (e.g. CC-BY-SA-2.5). It's  
probably easiest to link to the licence URL at Creative Commons, which  
gives the version number as part of the address and explains the  
acronym.
 
It might be worth making a static "Licence" page on the osm site to  
handle licencing and attribution. This would be the URL mentioned by  
the licence.
 
So you could just say:
 
Map licence, see: http://www.openstreetmap.org/licence
 
One thing that is worth considering is how to handle CC Licence  
upgrades. The "upgrade clause" in the BY_SA covers only derivative  
works. You could argue that an updated version of the OSM database is  
a derivative, in which case this would make it possible to upgrade the  
licence as soon as someone added some extra data, but IANAL so I'm not  
sure about this.
 
- Rob.

 

 

 

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