[OSM-legal-talk] mention the original creator

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

    on

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OpenStreetMap_License

we have the wording:

"you can do what you like with the data, so long as you mention the 
original creator"

This has been interpreted by some people as the Foundation actually 
*requiring* people to mention the original creator of *each object* in 
the database (i.e. long list of thousands of names).

I know that this is currently not clear; that a strict legal reading of 
CC-BY-SA would indeed require such a list "as suitable for the medium", 
but we don't actually expect anyone to do this, even though we are not 
in a legal position to tell people that they do NOT need to do this.

I would nevertheless like to change the wording to:

"you can do what you like with the data, so long as you mention the 
original *source*"

which, IMHO, reflects the existing ambiguity better. ("creator" is wrong 
in any case, as a strict reading of CC-BY-SA would require mentioning 
every contributor, not only the initial creator.)

Can I make this edit without starting an edit war?

Bye
Frederik

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