[OSM-legal-talk] mention the original creator

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Rob Myers wrote:
> Frederik Ramm wrote:
>> 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*"

> It's a very sensible change and would make life a lot easier.
> But I don't think it fits BY-SA 2.0 and the OSM contributor agreement.
> I would recommend concentrating on the "appropriate to the medium"
> clause instead.

Hm, I see that the license text itselfs speaks of "Original Author". 
Which makes sense, because in the terms of the license, if you make a 
change to a node, then you have crated a derived work, and you must 
credit the original author... ;-)

What about:

"you can do what you like with the data, so long as you mention the 
original author in a fashion that is reasonable for the medium you are 
using. Most people in OpenStreetMap assume that it is generally *not* 
reasonable to include a list of tens of thousands of contributors, and 
just credit OpenStreetMap as a whole."

This is actually far more explicit than I wanted to be...

Bye
Frederik

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