[OSM-legal-talk] Attribution

rob at robmyers.org rob at robmyers.org
Mon Apr 7 14:14:56 BST 2008


Quoting Michael Collinson <mike at ayeltd.biz>:

> I echo Tom's sentiment that www.openstreetmap.org/Attribution would be
> a cleaner public link to present if possible.

You can request under BY-SA 2.0 that a URL be presented with the work.  
See BY-SA 2.0 section 4.c:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode

"If you distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly  
digitally perform the Work or any Derivative Works or Collective  
Works, You must keep intact all copyright notices for the Work and  
give the Original Author credit reasonable to the medium or means You  
are utilizing by conveying [...]; to the extent reasonably  
practicable, the Uniform Resource Identifier, if any, that Licensor  
specifies to be associated with the Work, unless such URI does not  
refer to the copyright notice or licensing information for the Work;  
[...]"

Assuming attribution can be counted as part of the "licensing  
information" this could cover the attribution page.

- Rob.






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