[OSM-legal-talk] Attribution
Michael Collinson
mike at ayeltd.biz
Mon Apr 7 13:59:09 BST 2008
At 02:55 PM 4/7/2008, Michael Collinson wrote:
>At 02:19 PM 4/7/2008, 80n wrote:
>>Up to now there has not been any official guidance on how to comply
>>with the attribution clause of our CC-BY-SA license. This means
>>that people either try to do something that they hope is acceptable
>>or they do nothing. Some of OSM's own outputs fall into the latter
>>category (for example, the API and the planet dump) which sets a
>>bad example for others.
>>
>>At the very least we should be providing advice and guidance on how
>>users of the data can comply with the attribution requirement when
>>they publish OSM data.
>>
>>I'd like to propose that we make the following statement:
>>
>>"If you publish OpenStreetMap data you can satisfy the attribution
>>requirement of the license by linking to or referencing
>><http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Attribution>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Attribution"
>>
>>Discuss.
Excellent. Simple therefore workable.
I echo Tom's sentiment that www.openstreetmap.org/Attribution would
be a cleaner public link to present if possible.
Frederick's comment answered separately.
Mike
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