[OSM-legal-talk] selling map images

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

> If I included the text:
> 
> Mapping data provided by OpenStreetMap (http://openstreetmap.org)
> under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
> 
> somewhere on the print out, would this be legally allowable?

If you had asked: "Would you think that's ok" then the answer would
have been an easy yes.

However since you ask for the legal situation, I have to point out
that every individual contribution to this project makes his work
available to the project under CC-BY-SA 2.0 and therefore has a right
to specify the manner in which he or she wishes to be credited, and it
is not at OSM's discretion to tell you (the data user) whom to
attribute and how.

So while your note "mapping data provided..." is surely correct, it is
not necessarily sufficient since there might just be the odd
individual asking for special attribution.

This is really a freak case and nobody takes it seriously but the fact
is that it is not up to OSM to decide!

There was talk at SOTM'07 to somehow send a letter to every
contributor asking them to agree to "the OSM project"/"foundation"
being identified as the licensor under BY rules (instead of the
contributor himself). We would then have deleted all data contributed
by people who don't agree and afterwards be in a position to give you
a legally watertight "yes" in answer to your above question. But as
long as we don't have that the best we can say is "well we won't hit
you for doing that but we can't guarantee that nobody else does
either".

Bye
Frederik

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