[OSM-legal-talk] Proper attribution

[Sam Larsen]

----- Original Message ----
> From: Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>
> To: Licensing and other legal discussions. <legal-talk at openstreetmap.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, 20 October, 2009 13:13:31
> Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Proper attribution
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Tom Hughes wrote:
> > The main issue of debate surrounds exactly what forms of attribution 
> > are/are not valid.
> 
> And this is not made easier by the fact that what is valid and what not 
> is not the community's decision but (within the confines of the license 
> text) that of the individual contributor.
> 
> Assuming for a moment that my contributions to OSM are copyrightable and 
> the CC-BY-SA license is valid, then if I license my data CC-BY-SA I have 
> the right to request anyone using my data, or building or using derived 
> versions thereof, to provide attribution in the form I believe is 
> required, and I can drag them to court if they don't.

So it seems I have stumbled back on to the license debate.

> 
> So even if the attribution you provide looks ok to the majority of the 
> community, it only needs "one especially vociferous individual" who has 
> contributed to the data you are using to cause you trouble.

I guess this will only be resolved / improved by ODbL.  
Until that time, i guess the more attribution the better and following the guidelines on 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Legal_FAQ
will suffice.

> 
> Bye
> Frederik
> 
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