[OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] License missing on many web pages

Liz edodd at billiau.net
Wed Oct 1 09:47:50 BST 2008


On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Rob Myers wrote:
> This can be achieved by making openstreetmap.org the associated URI
> for the work, from the terms of the licence. See 4c:
>
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode
>
> So insisting on the URL as the means of communicating attribution
> where listing all x thousand contributors is not "appropriate to the
> medium" seems like a good solution (I am not a lawyer, this is not
> legal advice).

I've read that (more than once, now) and does seem to be the meaning of the 
English used in that clause.

So I happy to tell the apologetic Openmoko developers that 

In the mean time, the advice to credit maps and distributed data with the
phrase 'map data CCbySA www.openstreetmap.org' seems sensible advice!


Liz




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