[OSM-legal-talk] Attribution

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On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:

> In message <8fcd02310804070611u537c75e9pb8a6a27b466ef668 at mail.gmail.com>
>         80n80n at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
> >
> >> I would certainly prefer that people using our data provide a link
> >> to www.openstreetmap.org or the top level wiki index page as that
> >> would do a better job of advertising our project to people that follow
> >> the attribution link, which is surely the whole point of us wanting
> >> attribution.
> >
> > The purpose of this is not advertisement of the OSM project.  It is so
> that
> > users can comply with the terms of our license - users of our data have
> an
> > obligation to provide attribution.
>
> The point is that CC-BY-SA allows us to specify a URL that people
> must quote as attribution when using our work.
>
> You are trying to use that requirement as a way to ensure that people
> link to a page that passes on any nested attribution requirements that
> come from data we import.
>

It's not a requirement, its an option.

It is however a requirement that *all* publishers of OSM data satisfy any
attribution requirements imposed by contributors.

At the moment there is no easy way for them to do this and without such a
way, it is not easy for potential data contributors to believe that we can
satisfy their attribution requirements.


> I would prefer to use that requirement as a way to advertise our
> project to people that get works derived from our data.
>
> Trying to achieve both aims is obviously the ultimate goal, but it
> is not an easy thing to do.
>

Agreed, it is not easy to achieve either of these goals.  It is harder if we
try to make it more complicated than need be.  This proposal is about one
thing only - attribution.  Lets not confuse it with other requirements about
publicity etc. which will just make it more complicated and much harder.



>
> As Richard says however, it's a bit silly to do anything now when the
> license may be changing anyway.
>

In what way will the new license affect our attribution obligations?
Attribution is the only part of the current license that is not at issue.



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