[OSM-legal-talk] Concerns about ODbL

Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org
Mon Mar 2 19:42:14 GMT 2009


Hi,

Jean-Christophe Haessig wrote:
> I surely understand that contributors’ names won’t disappear from OSM
> itself, however with that clause, someone might make a copy of the
> database, remove the names and redistribute it (only attributing to
> OSM), which will in effect disable the users of this copy to find out
> original contributors’ names.

This is certainly true. Someone making a derived database can freely 
choose which elements to retain and which to remove. - We do not even 
tell people the names of all contributors (only the last person to edit 
the item is listed in the planet file).

Bye
Frederik

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