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


The purpose of providing an attribution list is to comply with the copyright
requirements.  Usefulness doesn't come into it.




Tom
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