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

[Tom Hughes]

In message <471DFA9D001F3D40 at pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net> (added by postmaster at pne.skanova.net)
        Mike Collinson <mike at ayeltd.biz> wrote:

> 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?

I can do it live, and as I said I did do it once on my test setup.

That's even more pointless than listing the people in a given area
though - it may satisfy the technical requirement of the license but
is of no real use to anybody.

Tom

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