[OSM-legal-talk] Oxford University use without attribution
Grant Slater
openstreetmap at firefishy.com
Mon Oct 22 12:32:42 BST 2007
Stephen Gower wrote:
> 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?
>
Fantastic news Oxford University has chosen OpenStreetMap, recognition
of the hard work of the mappers in the area.
>
> http://www.ox.ac.uk/applications/dynamic/map.rm?postcode=OX2+6UD&location=Wolfson%20College&id=490
>
I do see an attribution... "Mapping data provided by OpenStreetMap under
an open license." with links back to OSM.
I think this is perfectly acceptable.
Grant
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