[OSM-legal-talk] Merano Italy will be donating their data! CC-by-SA and donated data?

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On 10/30/07, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
>
> In message <9319.42062.qm at web30810.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
>         Mikel Maron <mikel_maron at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > It occurs to me that one simple, clean way to address attribution
> > more generally is a new action in rails which simply lists all the
> > users who have contributed within some bounding box. The map, and
> > any other use of the data, could then link to that page.
>
> There are two problems with that...
>
>   - Firstly we can't include any users that have not made their
>     identity public yet we are still (in theory) bound to attribute
>     them as that is what they signed up for.


If a user has asked for their identity to be concealed then are they not
implicitly saying that they do not wish to be attributed?  Otherwise we
can't use their data, period.

If we take that line then we might as well throw away all anonymous edits as
we can't attribute them, and can't use them without attribution, so we can't
use them.


  - Secondly we have dropped all history as of the 0.5 API upgrade
>     so such a scheme could not provide attribution for any edits
>     made before that date.


We should maintain on each element a cumulative list of contributors as well
as the most recent editor.  This data could easily be mined from the
0.4archive and applied to the current database.


Tom
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