[OSM-legal-talk] Oxford University use without attribution
Stephen Gower
socks-openstreetmap.org at earth.li
Mon Oct 22 12:22:27 BST 2007
Oxford University's new website launched this morning. Some of us
noted that they are using OSM data (in fact, pulling tiles straight
off the tile server) without attribution. Was this cleared in any
way, or are they just abusing the free nature of OSM?
http://www.ox.ac.uk/applications/dynamic/map.rm?postcode=OX2+6UD&location=Wolfson%20College&id=490
Should we be flattered that the Oxford data is considered good
enough to use and let it go, or should we try to get them attribute
in some way? Posted to legal because of the copyright violation,
and crossposted to talk because there may be bandwidth implications
for tile.openstreetmap.org.
In my juvenile manner, I'd be tempted to serve something other than
the requested tile if the referrer is www.ox.ac.uk - but perhaps it
would be best to be grownup and try to come to a proper
arrangement.
s
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