[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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