[OSM-legal-talk] Custom Data Formats? Data Filtering?

[brendan barrett]

Thanks for the super quick reply.

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Rob Myers wrote:
> I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.

Understood.

> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 12:48 PM, brendan barrett  wrote:
>
>> 1. Would I be allowed to leave out the "user" and "timestamp" tags in
>> the version that I create? Could I leave out any unnecessary tags
>> (there are a few)?
>
> Yes, you can. The rendered maps do this for example.

Great. That makes life easy.

>> 2. Do I need to make this data available in any other way other than
>> on the DVD that we distribute with the software?
>
> No, you don't need to. But bear in mind that under BY-SA the users of
> your version of the data will be free to copy it for use outside of
> the application or to give a copy of it to their friends for free.

Not an issue... they might as well take it from the openstreetmap.org
site (easier to read)... same difference.

>> We would obviously attribute the map data source to Open Street Map...
>> or the users... or whatever make sense (suggestions?).
>
> "Copyright OpenStreetMap and contributors."
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution

Thanks

> The CC website explains various ways of attributing work here:
>
> http://creativecommons.org/license/results-one?q_1=2&q_1=1&field_commercial=yes&field_derivatives=sa
>
> OSM is under BY-SA 2.0 rather than 3.0, but it's easy enough to change
> any text or URLs from the above page to reflect this.

Thanks again.

> - Rob.
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