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

[Mike Collinson]

At 12:25 PM 30/10/2007, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
>Tom Hughes wrote:
>
>>   - 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.
>
>I'm not sure that's a problem. If they've chosen not to click the  
>button, they've waived their right to attribution. If they want  
>attribution they can click the button.

That is logical.


>>   - 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.
>
>Indeed. Though we could perhaps retrofit that if it's deemed an issue.

There is nothing in the license that says we have to pinpoint who contributed what where; just that they are a contributor. As we are talking the legal fallout of the particular license petard we are sitting on rather than practical value (IMHO!) the simpler the solution the better.  Would that not be simply a link to an A, B, C, .. Z pages listing all the (15000 - non-public) contributors, refreshed occasionally by a batch script?  

Mike